My employer is paying for me to get the OSCP ethical hacking badge this week, which prep provider is currently considered the best for beginners
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The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.
SEED QUERY
My employer is paying for me to get the OSCP ethical hacking badge this week, which prep provider is currently considered the best for beginners
1 real search · 1 real-search pass
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Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.
Query classes
Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.
ChatGPT real searches (1)
Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model).
Searches and sources
ChatGPT1 real searches · gpt-6
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