AI & AEO

Claude Search

Quick Definition

Claude Search is Anthropic's web-search capability inside Claude, which queries live web sources and synthesizes cited answers similar to ChatGPT search and Perplexity.

In context

Claude Search uses a different retrieval stack than Google or Bing-based AI search and tends to favour long-form, factually dense sources. Optimizing for Claude Search overlaps heavily with optimizing for Perplexity but rewards even longer-form, more comprehensively structured content.

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