Knowledge Cutoff vs. Real-Time Search: What DeepSeek's Recent Outage Revealed

According to an IT Home report on July 22, DeepSeek's online search function experienced a glitch, displaying the message "Online search is temporarily unavailable due to technical reasons." When I tried asking for "the latest tech news today," the model directly stated that its internal knowledge cutoff is May 2025 and could not provide real-time information. That date is exactly two months ago, and the lack of online search means users can only rely on a static knowledge snapshot.