Ask questions or search through your content using the built in search bar.
Whether you’re working within the GitBook app or your visitors are reading your published content, GitBook’s search functions help to make it easy to find what you’re looking for.
You can use quick find to look for specific words or phrases, or you can ask GitBook AI a question. It’ll scan through your docs and summarize an answer in seconds, with references to help you find out more.
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#### Global search
If you’re publishing your documentation on [an Ultimate site plan](https://gitbook.com/docs/account-management/plans#site-plans), and add multiple spaces as [site sections](https://gitbook.com/docs/docs-site/site-structure/site-sections), your users will be able to use the **Ask or search** bar to find information across all your site sections.
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# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation
If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.
Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:
```
GET https://gitbook.com/docs/creating-content/searching-your-content.md?ask=
```
The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.
Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.
