Claude can now Google for you (but better)

ANTHROPIC

Claude can now Google for you (but better)

Anthropic has launched a new API that lets developers build Claude-powered apps with access to real-time web content.

Instead of relying solely on its training data, Claude can now pull in up-to-date information from the internet when it makes sense to do so.

The tool uses its own reasoning to decide whether a query needs fresh info.

If it does, Claude runs a search, reviews the results, and delivers a response with sources included.

Developers can customise how this works, setting rules for which sites Claude can or can’t search, or even switching the feature off entirely.

What to know:

• Claude can now search the web in real time and cite its sources.

• Developers have full control over how and where it searches.

• Claude Code now includes web search for up-to-date coding help.

We Googlin’ respectfully

It’s part of a bigger effort to boost what Claude can do.

Anthropic recently introduced tools for searching enterprise data, linking Claude directly to apps.

Web search has also been added to Claude Code, the company’s AI coding assistant, to pull in current documentation and dev resources.

Claude Code is still in beta for now.

Search pricing starts at $10 per 1,000 queries and works with Claude 3.5 and 3.7 models.

“I can find that faster than you” — Claude, probably.