If for some reason you want an alternative to Google’s search engine, The Browser Company, the company behind the Arc browser, has launched Arc Search. This new application promises to improve search results by making use of AI and preventing us from clicking on all the existing and future links to create a website for us and thus find what we were really looking for.
Arc Search is not a browser as such, although it is an independent application. In reality, it is not a typical search engine either, since makes use of Google technology to return the results. It is, rather, like the Google app, but much more simplified. The application developed by The Browser Company does not have a page that shows trending search results or based on what we have previously searched; It only has a search engine that works in a very simple way.
We just have to enter what we want to search for in the text box – for example, when the iPad Pro with M3 chip is released – to find what we are looking for. When you click the ‘Go’ button that appears on the keyboard, Arc Search will show the list of results in the Google search engine, as if we were going down from Chrome. However, The Browser Company’s app has a specific feature that greatly simplifies searches.
When you type, Arc Search displays a button called ‘Search for me‘ which, as its name suggests, allows you to find what you are looking for without you having to do it. The app, specifically, read up to six web pages for youcreates a website contrasting the information on each page you have accessed and makes a summary of the most relevant things so that you simply have to read it without clicking on each link.
Arc Search creates a website for you by summarizing search results
Following the example of the search on when the iPad Pro with M3 chip is released, by clicking on the ‘Search for me’ button, Arc Search has read six articles from various websites that have covered the news about the possible launch of the model, including Hypertextual. After, has created a small page summarizing the launch date, the event in which these models could be announced, and the most notable novelty: the inclusion of an M3 chip.
Arc Search also offers links to the most popular results, as well as other types of information of interest, such as the possible specifications that will reach the iPad Pro. Of course, this type of search can be applied to any other query. If we search, for example, when Taylor Swift’s tour resumes, the app will also create a website for you with the results it has found.
Arc Search, yes, not always right. On some occasions it tends to return results that, although they are real, are not correct, exact, or do not match what we are looking for. With the example of the search for Taylor Swift’s return to the stage, Arc Search has shown results that detail that the singer will resume the tour on October 18, 2024. It is, in fact, true, since the artist will return with the Eras Tour in the United States starting on that date, but the exact result would be that the tour resumes on February 7 in Tokyo, Japan.
Still, the Arc Finder can be especially useful forto find results about events or different events without having to navigate through the different websites manually. For example, we can ask when the Oscars are, and Arc Search will tell us what day they start, where they are broadcast, who the nominees are, etc.
Arc Search, we reiterate, works as an independent application to Arc, The Browser Company’s browser, and at the moment it is only available on the App Store.