Arc Search combines browser, search engine, and AI into something new and different
by David Pierce from The Verge - All Posts on (#6J6WD)
Arc Search browses the web for you and then builds you the webpage you wanted. That's the idea, anyway. | Image: The Browser Company / David Pierce A few minutes ago, I opened the new Arc Search app and typed, What happened in the Chiefs game?" That game, the AFC Championship, had just wrapped up. Normally, I'd Google it, click on a few links, and read about the game that way. But in Arc Search, I typed the query and tapped the Browse for me" button instead.
Arc Search, the new iOS app from The Browser Company, which has been working on a browser called Arc for the last few years, went to work. It scoured the web - reading six pages, it told me, from Twitter to The Guardian to USA Today - and returned a bunch of information a few seconds later. I got the headline: Chiefs win. I got the final score, the key play, a notable event" that also just said the Chiefs won, a note about...