u/carlos-algms

Most of my time is spent on doing web searches and comparisons.

Claude has a WebSearch tool that runs a "Google" like web search and returns results with the source links.

I usually ask for:

• How does tool x compare to y?
• Are there any blog posts or articles talking about X?
• Can you find A in github/stackoverflow/reddit?

How are you doing web searches?

Are there free options?

Which plugins/extensions do you recommend?

EDIT: Given that 2026 is already full of supply chain attacks...

I followed the suggestions and built my own extension with 4 different backends.

My extension queries 2 backends in parallel and gets 6 different results (3 from each), falls back to the other if rate-limited or exhausted, then pipes the response to Defuddle and exposes markdown to the LLM.

I'm quite happy, thanks for all the comments so far!

Great community!! 💪🏻