Anthropic has launched a web search feature for its Claude AI assistant, allowing developers to enhance its responses with current web data via API access. This development highlights a crucial competition among tech giants in the evolving AI search market, indicating traditional search engines may be losing traction. As evidenced by recent user trends and testimonies from industry leaders like Eddy Cue, AI tools are increasingly seen as competitors to established search models, representing a fundamental change in how consumers seek information online.
"Developers can now augment Claude's comprehensive knowledge with current, real-world data by enabling the web search tool when making requests to the Messages API."
"I've lost a lot of sleep thinking about it," Cue said regarding potential revenue loss from Google's estimated $20 billion payment to be Safari's default search engine.
SOCi's Consumer Behavior Index shows that 19% of consumers already use AI for search, creating the first meaningful challenge to Google's stranglehold on web information access in decades.
Web search is now available on our API. Developers can augment Claude's comprehensive knowledge with up-to-date data.
Collection
[
|
...
]