Best AI Search Tools

Perplexity is an answer engine that searches the web, synthesizes sources, and presents cited responses for research-oriented questions.

You.com combines AI chat, search, writing, and research modes in a customizable answer engine for knowledge work.

Arc Search is a mobile-first browser and answer engine that summarizes web results into concise browse-for-me pages.

Consensus searches scientific literature and helps users understand evidence-backed answers with links to relevant research papers.

Elicit is an AI research assistant for finding papers, extracting evidence, synthesizing literature, and organizing systematic reviews.

Phind is a developer-focused answer engine that searches technical sources and explains programming concepts with code-oriented responses.

Scite helps researchers assess scientific claims through smart citations that show how later work supports or contrasts with a paper.