🤩 Claude can now search the Web for everybody!
This is an unannounced feature. I just discovered by accident that “Web search” can now be enabled in both the browser and the app, and it works!
When Claude 4 was announced on May 22, the official news reported that “Extended thinking with tool use (beta): Both models can use tools—like web search—during extended thinking, allowing Claude to alternate between reasoning and tool use to improve responses.” However, the documentation about web search still talks about “adding the web search tool to your API request”; there’s no place where Anthropic brought the big news:
Claude’s major flaw has now been resolved.
Or rather, there was an announcement on May 20: Claude can now search the web. Except that it read as follows:
Web search is available now in feature preview for all paid Claude users in the United States. Support for users on our free plan and more countries is coming soon.
So I just ignored it.
By revisiting that page, I could see that they have now updated the article to read:
Update: Web search is now available globally on all Claude plans 27 May 2025
But they couldn’t be bothered to issue a new announcement!
Dario, you have to fire the head of your communication or marketing department!
I tried it and it works as expected. It can also access specific URLs. Here’s the conversation in which I tested Claude’s latest feature. It has to do with my previous post.
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic: “AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs — and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next one to five years.”
But the outcome is great: “Cancer is cured, the economy grows at 10% a year, the budget is balanced — and 20% of people don’t have jobs.”
Dario’s scenario: “Most Americans, unaware of the growing power of AI and its threat to their jobs, pay little attention. … And then, almost overnight, business leaders see the savings of replacing humans with AI — and do this en masse. … The public only realizes it when it’s too late.”
Source: Axios: Behind the Curtain: A white-collar bloodbath.
Dario is a retard. It’s impossible to have a GDP growth of 10% per year when 20% of people are unemployed. He doesn’t understand anything about macroeconomics, society, and people. What are the symptoms of autism?
Yes, I came across this as well. Given that this is an important feature and was a black spot for Claude, they could indeed have made a big announcement.
For the past 2 months, all the updates in the App Store have just said : “Improvements and bug fixes”. Very informative 🤔
What’s curious is that in the mobile app, in the settings there’s an option to tell it to use web search all the time (in “Tools”), but not in the web interface where you have to do it in the conversation window.
The screenshot here shows that you’ve kept Artifacts active. Hmm, I thought it was better to deactivate it…