alt Hacker NewsOne issue is that Claude’s web search abilities are more limited, for example it can’t search Reddit and Stack Overflow for relevant content.
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samhclark • yesterday at 2:42 PM
That's so frustrating with Claude. If I need to widely search the web or if I need it to read a specific URL I pasted, I always turn to ChatGPT. Claude seems to hit a lot more roadblocks while trying to navigate the web.
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andai • yesterday at 5:00 PM
It's not that hard to roll your own web search MCP.
I made one for Crush a while ago.
https://anduil.neocities.org/blog/?page=mcp
I'm not sure about the issues with reddit though? Do they block Claude's web fetch tool? I think Codex runs it thru some kind of cache proxy.
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MrDarcy • yesterday at 5:36 PM
That’s a feature not a bug.
Why not just write a skill and script that calls crawl4ai or similar and do this using Claude code?
You can store the page as markdown for future sessions, mash the data w other context, you name it.
The web Claude is incredibly limited both in capability and workflow integration. Doesn’t matter if you’re dealing with bids from arbor contractors or researching solutions for a DB problem.