Claude Pretending to Search

I've been having a lot of trouble getting claude to search the web for answers. I've experienced this with sonnet, Opus, and even fable (just as a test). When called out, sometimes it'll double down on this multiple times. I've tried prompts like "research this" and "do a search" and "search the web" but it seems to just not want to search unless I call it out multiple times. On one Opus session, it did it four times in a row and I had to do the search myself, screenshot it, and provide it the screenshot fo