David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

On October 17, 2026, DeepSeek released its 'Search API' and 'Fetch API' using its own search engine, making them available ...

This year’s conference included another change to search, this one more profound but less aggressively deployed. “AI Mode,” which has similarly been in beta testing for a while, will appear as an ...

Anthropic is launching a new API that allows its Claude AI models to search across the web. Developers using it can build Claude-powered apps that deliver up-to-date info, the company said in a press ...

Wading through a long list of links is no longer the only way we get search results from Google or emerging AI-aided alternatives. Emerging AI-based search systems often leverage large language models ...

Search firm Exa wants to use the tech behind large language models to tame the wildness of the web. A startup called Exa is pitching a new spin on generative search. It uses the tech behind large ...

Google is testing Web Guide in Search Labs. Web Guide is an AI-powered feature that groups search results by topic in the Web tab. The system uses Gemini and a “query fan-out” method to reorganize ...

The tool puts OpenAI squarely in competition with the search giants and will help fuel its next generation of AI agents ChatGPT can now search the web for up-to-date answers to a user’s queries, ...

Anthropic has announced the addition of web search capabilities to its Claude models, available via the Anthropic API. This update enables Claude to access current information from the web, allowing ...

Claude can now search the web for up-to-date information. The feature provides source citations for fact-checking. Web search is only available to paid US users currently. Anthropic's AI assistant ...

In the mid-’90s, the web was exploding, but finding anything of actual value on it felt like an elaborate negotiation with whatever proto-search engine happened to be standing closest to the door.