After an open beta that rolled retired past month, Arc Search is present disposable to each Android users. The Browser Company’s hunt motor — which describes itself arsenic “the fastest mode to search” — has been positioning itself arsenic a amended alternate to Chrome.
Arc Search not lone blocks ads but besides has an AI diagnostic called “browse for me” that summarizes hunt results. In a September Decoder interview, Browser Company CEO Josh Miller described Arc arsenic a laptop-first hunt engine, but the institution is intelligibly leaning successful to mobile.
Over 100,000 Android users participated successful the Arc beta, according to a property release. Arc says it’s fixed immoderate of the issues that bothered users astir during the beta trial — arsenic a result, the browser present has afloat enactment for Android 12, a dependable hunt feature, scenery mode, and a cleaned-up incognito mode.
The Android motorboat is portion of Arc’s larger modulation to mobile search. The Browser Company initially released Arc arsenic a Mac-only desktop browser, and launched a mobile mentation for iOS devices successful January. Arc was released for Windows successful April.