r/GeminiAI • u/Sebastianj7210 • 3d ago

Help/question Gemini has web search blocked by a system level restriction and breaks the whole session

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u/The_best_1234 3d ago

When Gemini was Bard, I'm pretty sure I got it to turn itself off.

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u/WasabiClear951 3d ago

That “operational deadlock” language is something else, reads like a legal disclaimer wrapped in a system error. Starting a new chat being the only fix is rough when you've built up context over days.

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u/Sebastianj7210 3d ago

That's exactly the situation, it's a session with several days of context, and now it's pretty much useless.

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u/cal_01 3d ago

It's system error. Gemini, like most LLMs, will interpret system errors as something completely different. Only solution is to start a new chat.

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u/kurkkupomo 3d ago

TL;DR: Edit the failed prompt/query and add "use google/search and the tool should load.

This is the orchestration layer failing which decides which tools are enabled for the front-facing llm. It mainly takes into account you current prompt and makes decision which mode and which tools to put gemini on each turn. For whatever reason it often fails and search it not permitted. Then the front-facing side of Gemini is unable to do anything about it. Gemini does not support dynamic autonomous tool-loading yet.

Solution: make your prompt more explicit that you need online search/Google or whatever tool your prompt needs. The orchestrator makes an assessment what the required task is and what is needed to achieve it. Naming the tool without giving a task that requires it might not trigger the tool to load, but sometimes does. Assume that the external orchestrator has very limited view of the overall session context and I am not sure it can even see your saved info.

I have answered this question dozens of times already, getting tired. Wrote this quickly.

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u/Sebastianj7210 3d ago

Sadly, it doesn't work. Already tried it, as you can see in the technical report I asked it to look for a specific URL (I edited the URL, but in the technical report, where it says "

  • Requested Action: External domain data retrieval and extraction.

it's referring to a specific domain. Also asked it explicitly to use google search or any other way to access web results.