AI plans steps, searches many times, then combines what it finds.
Agentic search is not a stack of blue links. It is a very online friend with a clipboard, checking the weird one-star reviews for you.
It helps with hard questions and research. It saves time, but bad pages can still fool it.
Agent
Agentic search is an Agent used for search tasks.
RAG
Agentic search is more active than RAG and plans its own search steps.
IR
Agentic search builds on IR because search systems find the information.
Prompt injection
Agentic search reads web pages, so prompt injection can lead it off track.