Anthropic’s Claude Can Search The Web, Closing Gap With ChatGPT via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Anthropic has launched web hunt capabilities for its AI assistant, Claude. This allows the chatbot to entree existent accusation erstwhile responding to queries.

The diagnostic represents a large upgrade, allowing Claude to supplement its existing cognition basal with real-time data.

How Claude’s Web Search Works

When Claude incorporates accusation from the internet, it provides nonstop citations to let users to verify sources.

Like different chatbots with hunt access, Claude processes webpages and delivers the accusation successful a conversational format.

See immoderate examples below:

Screenshot from: Anthropic.com, March 2025.

Screenshot from: Anthropic.com, March 2025.

Screenshot from: Anthropic.com, March 2025.

Adding web hunt addresses 1 of Claude’s erstwhile limitations compared to competitors similar OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google’s Gemini, each of which already connection akin internet-connected capabilities.

Business & Consumer Applications

Anthropic shows however Claude’s caller hunt diagnostic tin assistance antithetic groups:

1. Sales professionals tin look astatine manufacture trends to hole amended for talks with imaginable clients.
2. Financial analysts tin find existent marketplace information and net reports to usher their concern choices.
3. Researchers tin fortify their lit reviews by searching for superior sources online.
4. Consumers tin comparison merchandise features, prices, and reviews to marque amended buying decisions.

Availability & Rollout

The web hunt diagnostic is disposable lone successful “feature preview” for paid Claude users successful the United States.

Anthropic says enactment for free-tier users and enlargement to further countries is planned for the adjacent future.

Paid users tin activate web hunt done their illustration settings earlier starting a speech with Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which volition past automatically hunt the web erstwhile applicable to queries.

Industry Context

This update arrives arsenic net entree becomes communal among large AI assistants. Claude is praised for its reasoning and originative penning skills, but it has struggled with existent information.

Adding web hunt features shows that Anthropic aims to presumption Claude arsenic a implicit AI adjunct for businesses and consumers.

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SEJ STAFF Matt G. Southern Senior News Writer astatine Search Engine Journal

Matt G. Southern, Senior News Writer, has been with Search Engine Journal since 2013. With a bachelor’s grade successful communications, ...