AI ANSWER ENGINE

What is Claude web search?

Claude web search is an AI answer engine run by Anthropic. Where its answers come from is not stated. On record: Bing for image results only; the web results provider is not named. On structured data, this research records the stance “Its pages say nothing about it”.

Last checked November 10, 2026 · 4 sources

Type
AI answer engine
Run by
Anthropic
Results come from
Not statedAlso on record: Bing for image results only; the web results provider is not named
Recorded markets
Not limited to listed countries in its pages
Where its AI chatbot share is highest
Equatorial Guinea, 55.56% StatCounter Global StatsAmong ranked places: 1 million people or more, at least three entries listedStatCounter label: Claude
AI chatbot share, worldwide
2.32% StatCounter Global StatsStatCounter label: Claude
Structured data formats
None documented
Rich result types
None on record

Who runs it

Run by Anthropic.

In the AI knowledge graph: Anthropic.

claude.ai

Where does Claude web search get its results?

Not stated. Claude-SearchBot crawls the web to improve the quality of search results[1], but neither the web search help article[3] nor the API tool page[2] names the provider of general web results or says they come from an Anthropic index. The help article says image results come from Bing[3].

Engines and providers it names

  • BingCovers one part only

    Bing for image results only; the web results provider is not named[3]

    Conditions recorded: Image results only. The help article attributes image results in Claude web search to Bing. The provider of general web results is not named.

    Words on the source page: “powered by Bing”

Engines that use results from Claude web search

The research records no engine that takes its general results from Claude web search or is built on it by the same company.

Which countries use Claude web search?

AI chatbot share for Claude, worldwide

2.32%

#4 worldwide, October 2026 · StatCounter Global Stats

#1 by share in

1 country or territory

of the 133 places ranked here (1 million people or more, at least three entries listed) · StatCounter Global Stats

What the figures measure: StatCounter's AI chatbot market share, October 2026. StatCounter does not describe how it measures AI chatbot share on the pages read, so no method is claimed here. StatCounter's label is “Claude”; this page is about Claude web search. Source: StatCounter Global Stats, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.

Where it is #1 by share

Equatorial Guinea (55.56%). StatCounter Global Stats

The 15 ranked places where Claude web search has its highest shareAI chatbot share for Claude in each, October 2026, with its rank there. Bars run from 0 to 100%. StatCounter Global StatsRanked: places of 1 million people or more where StatCounter lists at least three entries. In smaller places, or where it lists only one or two, a single figure can swing widely (a lone entry shows as 100%). Population: World Bank; Taiwan, which the World Bank does not list, from Wikidata, citing its household registration office. Smaller places stay on the map and in the full list.
  1. Equatorial Guinea55.56% #1
  2. Congo17.65% #3
  3. Burkina Faso12.28% #4
  4. Tajikistan8.89% #3
  5. Liberia8.7% #4
  6. Benin7.81% #4
  7. Armenia7.66% #4
  8. Cameroon7.52% #3
  9. Zimbabwe7.41% #4
  10. Lebanon6.82% #4
  11. United Republic of Tanzania6.45% #3
  12. Kyrgyzstan6.25% #3
  13. Australia6.13% #5
  14. Austria6.05% #4
  15. Mongolia6.02% #3

StatCounter's AI chatbot share for Claude by country, October 2026A world map shaded by share in five bands. 151 countries and territories have a figure; each country opens its figures on a click, and the full list is below the map.Brunei Darussalam: 0.72%Bolivia (Plurinational State of): 0.44%China: 0.23%Ethiopia: 0.16%Honduras: 0.36%Cambodia: 0.63%Madagascar: 0.36%Mozambique: 0.69%El Salvador: 0.7%Syrian Arab Republic: 0.45%Timor-Leste: 0.81%Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of): 0.14%Albania: 3.74%Angola: 4.05%Azerbaijan: 2.66%Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1.82%Bangladesh: 3.54%Belgium: 4.39%Bulgaria: 2.73%Brazil: 3.01%Botswana: 3.23%Belarus: 2.07%Canada: 4.91%Democratic Republic of the Congo: 1.02%Switzerland: 3.36%Côte d’Ivoire: 2%Chile: 2.82%Colombia: 2.2%Costa Rica: 3.88%Czechia: 3.25%Germany: 4.03%Denmark: 3.21%Dominican Republic: 2.2%Algeria: 2.06%Egypt: 1.72%Spain: 2.12%France: 4.67%United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: 4.22%Greece: 3.45%Guatemala: 1.48%Croatia: 2.23%Hungary: 1.83%Indonesia: 1.42%Ireland: 4.6%Israel: 2.35%India: 3.38%Iraq: 3.01%Iran (Islamic Republic of): 1.34%Italy: 3.45%Jamaica: 1.01%Jordan: 2.34%Japan: 2.28%Kenya: 4.13%Republic of Korea: 1.19%Kuwait: 2.12%Lao People's Democratic Republic: 1.32%Sri Lanka: 2.13%Lithuania: 4.26%Latvia: 1.77%Libya: 4.74%Morocco: 2.82%Republic of Moldova: 1.9%Montenegro: 3.16%North Macedonia: 1.9%Malawi: 4.69%Mexico: 1.23%Malaysia: 1.64%Nigeria: 4.55%Netherlands (Kingdom of the): 2.86%Norway: 4.33%Nepal: 1.39%Oman: 2.34%Panama: 2.36%Peru: 1.83%Philippines: 1.79%Pakistan: 4.09%Poland: 2.5%State of Palestine: 1.94%Portugal: 4.23%Paraguay: 3.49%Qatar: 2.05%Romania: 3.86%Serbia: 4.08%Russian Federation: 2.46%Rwanda: 1.46%Saudi Arabia: 4.53%Sweden: 2.86%Slovenia: 2.03%Slovakia: 1.98%Senegal: 4.76%Suriname: 3.23%Togo: 1.82%Thailand: 2.31%Tunisia: 3.05%Türkiye: 2.73%Trinidad and Tobago: 1.18%Taiwan: 2.58%Ukraine: 2.9%Uganda: 3.72%Uruguay: 2.5%Uzbekistan: 2.84%Viet Nam: 2.42%South Africa: 2.24%United Arab Emirates: 5.22%Armenia: 7.66%Argentina: 5.03%Austria: 6.05%Australia: 6.13%Burkina Faso: 12.28%Benin: 7.81%Bahamas: 5.04%Bhutan: 11.54%Congo: 17.65%Cameroon: 7.52%Cyprus: 5.12%Ecuador: 5.08%Estonia: 5.09%Finland: 5.92%Fiji: 8.33%Georgia: 5.05%Ghana: 5.65%Iceland: 7.41%Kyrgyzstan: 6.25%Kazakhstan: 5.38%Lebanon: 6.82%Liberia: 8.7%Luxembourg: 6.32%Mali: 5.56%Mongolia: 6.02%New Caledonia: 11.76%New Zealand: 5.58%Papua New Guinea: 5.71%Puerto Rico: 5%Tajikistan: 8.89%United Republic of Tanzania: 6.45%United States of America: 5.71%Zimbabwe: 7.41%Equatorial Guinea: 55.56%Afghanistan: not listedBurundi: not listedBelize: not listedCentral African Republic: not listedCuba: not listedDjibouti: not listedEritrea: not listedGabon: not listedGreenland: not listedGambia: not listedGuinea: not listedGuinea-Bissau: not listedGuyana: not listedHaiti: not listedLesotho: not listedMyanmar: not listedMauritania: not listedNamibia: not listedNiger: not listedNicaragua: not listedSolomon Islands: not listedSudan: not listedSierra Leone: not listedSomalia: not listedSouth Sudan: not listedEswatini: not listedChad: not listedTurkmenistan: not listedVanuatu: not listedYemen: not listedZambia: not listedWestern Sahara: no dataFalkland Islands (Malvinas): no dataDemocratic People's Republic of Korea: no dataFrench Southern Territories: no dataKosovo: no dataN. Cyprus: no dataSomaliland: no data
  • Under 1%
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  • 5% to under 20%
  • 20% to under 50%
  • 50% or more
  • Not in StatCounter's list there
  • No data

Equal Earth projection. Antarctica and many small places are too small to draw; every figure is in the list below. “Not in StatCounter's list there” means its table for that place does not include Claude web search; “No data” means StatCounter returned no table for it. StatCounter Global Stats

All 151 countries and territories with a figure

Monaco 80% (#1) Equatorial Guinea 55.56% (#1) British Virgin Islands 31.25% (#2) Congo 17.65% (#3) Burkina Faso 12.28% (#4) New Caledonia 11.76% (#3) Bhutan 11.54% (#2) Tajikistan 8.89% (#3) Liberia 8.7% (#4) Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba 8.33% (#3) Fiji 8.33% (#4) Benin 7.81% (#4) Armenia 7.66% (#4) Cameroon 7.52% (#3) Iceland 7.41% (#4) Zimbabwe 7.41% (#4) Lebanon 6.82% (#4) United Republic of Tanzania 6.45% (#3) Luxembourg 6.32% (#4) Kyrgyzstan 6.25% (#3) Australia 6.13% (#5) Austria 6.05% (#4) Mongolia 6.02% (#3) Maldives 5.96% (#3) Finland 5.92% (#4) Singapore 5.87% (#4) Barbados 5.71% (#3) Papua New Guinea 5.71% (#5) United States of America 5.71% (#5) Ghana 5.65% (#4) New Zealand 5.58% (#4) Mali 5.56% (#4) Kazakhstan 5.38% (#4) Martinique 5.26% (#4) United Arab Emirates 5.22% (#4) Réunion 5.13% (#3) Cyprus 5.12% (#4) Estonia 5.09% (#4) Ecuador 5.08% (#4) Georgia 5.05% (#4) Bahamas 5.04% (#4) Argentina 5.03% (#4) Puerto Rico 5% (#5) Canada 4.91% (#5) Senegal 4.76% (#4) Libya 4.74% (#4) Malawi 4.69% (#4) France 4.67% (#4) Ireland 4.6% (#5) Nigeria 4.55% (#4) Saudi Arabia 4.53% (#4) Belgium 4.39% (#4) Guadeloupe 4.35% (#5) Norway 4.33% (#5) Lithuania 4.26% (#4) Portugal 4.23% (#4) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 4.22% (#5) Kenya 4.13% (#4) Pakistan 4.09% (#3) Serbia 4.08% (#4) Angola 4.05% (#3) Germany 4.03% (#4) Costa Rica 3.88% (#5) Romania 3.86% (#4) Albania 3.74% (#4) Uganda 3.72% (#3) Bangladesh 3.54% (#4) Paraguay 3.49% (#4) Greece 3.45% (#4) Italy 3.45% (#5) India 3.38% (#4) Switzerland 3.36% (#4) Czechia 3.25% (#5) Botswana 3.23% (#5) Suriname 3.23% (#5) Denmark 3.21% (#5) Montenegro 3.16% (#4) Tunisia 3.05% (#4) Brazil 3.01% (#4) Iraq 3.01% (#4) Ukraine 2.9% (#4) Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 2.86% (#5) Sweden 2.86% (#5) Uzbekistan 2.84% (#4) Chile 2.82% (#5) Morocco 2.82% (#4) Bulgaria 2.73% (#4) Türkiye 2.73% (#4) Azerbaijan 2.66% (#4) Taiwan 2.58% (#4) Mauritius 2.54% (#5) Poland 2.5% (#4) Uruguay 2.5% (#5) Russian Federation 2.46% (#4) Viet Nam 2.42% (#4) Panama 2.36% (#5) Israel 2.35% (#4) Jordan 2.34% (#5) Oman 2.34% (#5) Thailand 2.31% (#4) Japan 2.28% (#5) South Africa 2.24% (#5) Croatia 2.23% (#4) Colombia 2.2% (#5) Dominican Republic 2.2% (#5) Sri Lanka 2.13% (#4) Kuwait 2.12% (#5) Spain 2.12% (#5) Belarus 2.07% (#4) Algeria 2.06% (#4) Qatar 2.05% (#5) Slovenia 2.03% (#5) Côte d’Ivoire 2% (#5) Slovakia 1.98% (#5) State of Palestine 1.94% (#4) North Macedonia 1.9% (#4) Republic of Moldova 1.9% (#4) Bahrain 1.83% (#4) Hungary 1.83% (#5) Peru 1.83% (#4) Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.82% (#4) Togo 1.82% (#4) Philippines 1.79% (#5) Latvia 1.77% (#4) Egypt 1.72% (#5) Malta 1.7% (#5) Malaysia 1.64% (#5) Guatemala 1.48% (#5) Rwanda 1.46% (#4) Indonesia 1.42% (#4) Nepal 1.39% (#5) Iran (Islamic Republic of) 1.34% (#4) Lao People's Democratic Republic 1.32% (#5) Mexico 1.23% (#5) Republic of Korea 1.19% (#5) Trinidad and Tobago 1.18% (#5) Democratic Republic of the Congo 1.02% (#4) Jamaica 1.01% (#5) Timor-Leste 0.81% (#5) Brunei Darussalam 0.72% (#4) El Salvador 0.7% (#5) Mozambique 0.69% (#5) Cambodia 0.63% (#5) Syrian Arab Republic 0.45% (#4) Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 0.44% (#5) Honduras 0.36% (#5) Madagascar 0.36% (#5) China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region 0.24% (#6) China 0.23% (#5) Ethiopia 0.16% (#5) Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 0.14% (#4)

StatCounter Global Stats, October 2026, CC BY-SA 3.0. The number in brackets is its rank in that place.

Recorded markets

The research records no country limit for Claude web search: its pages do not limit it to listed countries.

Does Claude web search use structured data?

Stance recordedIts pages say nothing about it

None of the three Anthropic pages read[1-3] mentions schema.org, structured data or meta tags. Silence is not a statement that markup is ignored.[1]

Structured data formats for Claude web search
FormatDocumented supportWhat the research records
JSON-LDNot documentedNot mentioned on Anthropic's crawler article[1], the web search help article[3] or the web search tool page[2]. Not documented is not the same as not supported.[1]
MicrodataNot documentedNot mentioned on Anthropic's crawler article[1], the web search help article[3] or the web search tool page[2]. Not documented is not the same as not supported.[1]
RDFaNot documentedNot mentioned on Anthropic's crawler article[1], the web search help article[3] or the web search tool page[2]. Not documented is not the same as not supported.[1]
Open GraphNot documentedNot mentioned on Anthropic's crawler article[1], the web search help article[3] or the web search tool page[2]. Not documented is not the same as not supported.[1]
MicroformatsNot documentedNot mentioned on Anthropic's crawler article[1], the web search help article[3] or the web search tool page[2]. Not documented is not the same as not supported.[1]
Twitter CardsNot documentedNot mentioned on Anthropic's crawler article[1], the web search help article[3] or the web search tool page[2]. Not documented is not the same as not supported.[1]

“Not documented” means the pages read do not say; it does not mean the format is ignored.

Rich resultsThe research records no rich result type for Claude web search.

How does Claude web search crawl the web?

The research lists 4 crawler tokens for Claude web search: the names a site uses in robots.txt rules, with what each one does where the source says.

  • ClaudeBot

    Collects web content that could contribute to model training. Blocking it signals that the site's future material should be left out of training datasets. follows robots.txt.[1]

  • Claude-User

    Fetches pages when a person asks Claude a question. Blocking it stops retrieval for user queries and may reduce the site's visibility in user-directed web search. follows robots.txt.[1]

  • Claude-SearchBot

    Crawls the web to improve search result quality and relevance. Blocking it prevents indexing for search and may reduce visibility and accuracy in search results. follows robots.txt.[1]

  • Claude-Agent

    Identifier for Anthropic-hosted browsers. The article points to a separate article for it, which the researcher did not read, and does not describe it as a crawler. robots.txt behavior not stated.[1]

How do I test my markup for Claude web search?

The research records no markup testing tool of its own for Claude web search.

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What does Claude web search ask of site owners?

Guidelines

robots.txt
Anthropic says its bots honor industry-standard robots.txt directives. Blocking takes a User-agent group with Disallow: / in the robots.txt of each subdomain. The non-standard Crawl-delay extension is supported; the example is User-agent: ClaudeBot with Crawl-delay: 1.[1]
search visibility
Blocking Claude-SearchBot prevents indexing for search and may reduce visibility and accuracy in search results. Blocking Claude-User may reduce visibility in user-directed web search.[1]
ai training preference
Since 2026-10-30 Anthropic honors a machine-readable no AI training preference signal, based on a draft from the IETF aipref working group. A robots.txt rule that names ClaudeBot takes priority over the general signal. The page says the standard is still evolving.[1]
verification
A published IP list identifies Anthropic's crawlers: a source IP on the list means the request comes from Anthropic. The page warns that blocking by IP address is not a reliable opt-out.[1]
citations
Every web search response carries citations with source links. The help article gives no controls for site owners and no country list. Image results are "powered by Bing".[3]
api controls
The API web search tool has versions web_search_20250305, web_search_20260209 and web_search_20260318. A request may set allowed_domains or blocked_domains but not both, plus user_location and max_uses. Citations return cited_text of up to 150 characters with the title and URL. The page names no search provider.[2]

What could not be verified?

These claims about Claude web search came up in the research, but no page that could be read confirms them. They are kept apart, and nothing above rests on them.

  • Which search provider or index supplies Claude's general web results.

    Why it is open: No primary statement found. Only image results are attributed, to Bing[3].

    How it was checked

    Read the crawler article[1], the web search help article[3] and the API web search tool page[2]. None names a provider for general web results.

  • Anthropic lists Brave Search as a subprocessor for web search.

    Why it is open: List not read, so the claim is neither confirmed nor ruled out. It circulates in secondary sources, which were not used.

    How it was checked

    Fetched the Anthropic subprocessor list (source 4, reached by redirect from www.anthropic.com/subprocessors). Only the page title came back; the list is rendered by JavaScript and was not returned.

Sources

The pages the research used for Claude web search, numbered as cited above. Accessed November 10, 2026 unless shown.

  1. 1.Does Anthropic crawl data from the web, and how can site owners block the crawler? (reached by 301 redirect from support.anthropic.com; page shows only a relative update date) · Anthropic
  2. 2.Web search tool (reached by 302 redirect from docs.claude.com) · Anthropic
  3. 3.Enable and use web search (page shows only a relative update date) · Anthropic
  4. 4.Anthropic Trust Center (title only; subprocessor list not returned, page is JavaScript-rendered; reached by 307 redirect from www.anthropic.com/subprocessors) · AnthropicPartly read

Market share figures: StatCounter Global Stats, AI chatbot market share, October 2026, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.