For years, Google (or any other search engine) has been the main gateway so that people discover websites and other content. The navigator companyWhat makes the ARC browser is looking to change this by building an AI that surfaces on the web for you and gives you the results while bypassing search engines.
The company has presented its product roadmap, which talks about the release of a new tool in the coming months you can tell the browser what you are looking for and it will present relevant information by automatically crawling the web.
In a video published today, Josh Miller, co -founder and CEO of the company, shows that users will be able to type something like “Reservation for two people in Llama Inn or Kings Imperial”, and the browser will make the results with the available time slots – which will be available in the coming months. Then, users can book a table by going to a particular website with one click.
The plan produced
The company has already launched part of this work. The company said that only some of these features use LLMs, but they all work in order to “bring you the Internet”.
Earlier this week, he released A new iPhone web browser application called Arc Search. The application has a “browser” feature, which reads at least six links related to the subject and creates a new web page with photos and videos while summarizing the information.
The new Arc iPhone browser wants to be your research companion
Today, the startup publishes a feature called “Instant Links”, which brings you directly to a link rather than turning the results of the search engine. For example, if you are looking for a “Gladiator 2 trailer”, the new feature will take you directly to the trailer on YouTube. It also works on files, so if you are looking for something like “Folder of Apple Vision Pro Reviews”, it will create a file with vision pro reviews of different publications.
Later this month, the company will publish a functionality of “live file”. It will work as files, but these folders will be automatically updated when a event like a new blog occurs. In the video, Miller also shows that you can update filters for folders. Examples include a new story on a subject, or someone who mentions you in the monitoring tool for linear problems. It looks like a mixture of RSS feeds and page updates, but we don’t know if he can follow the changes on a page.
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Browsers generally earn money by Do agreements with search engineshave theirs Ads or, in some cases, Offer subscriptions. The browser company argues that Chrome and other browsers are aligned to make you do more research, so there is more advertising money. So he wants to cut the middlepersons and serve the results directly.
Arc Browser wants to change the way we sail on the web and quickly get the results. He also tries to use AI agents in a different way by not sticking them in a sidebar to write messages. In October 2023, the company published new AI features, including renowned tabs and downloaded files and displaying a summary of a link.
On the other hand, while the role of agents supplied by AI increases on the internet, there are questions about how you return the value of publishers and blogs whose content you recover and summarizes.
Last year, in a videoThe company said that it would never sell user data to third parties for money. But he will explore avenues such as Arc for Teams. But that has not yet announced anything.
There is also a debate to have on how AI selects the “best” results. For different people, preference may be different and the result may not be the best for them.
Given the increase in the popularity of LLM, startups like Openai and Perplexity push people to obtain answers on their platforms. Search for players like Google,, Microsoft And DuckDuckGo also relied on the search fueled by AI. ARC therefore believes that time is ripe to put a new search method in your web browser.