OpenClaw Web Search: Giving Your AI Agent Access to the Internet

If your agent cannot look outside its prompt window, it stays trapped in yesterday's context. That is fine for writing boilerplate. It is terrible for research, monitoring, and anything that depends on current information. OpenClaw solves that with two separate tools: web_search for finding relevant pages, and web_fetch for pulling readable content from a specific URL. Search is for discovery. Fetch is for extraction. Once you understand the difference, your agent stops acting like a chatbot and starts acting like an operator. This guide is the practical version.