Our Story

Accessing the Web's Data Shouldn't Be Hard

The vast majority of the web's data lies untapped. We're building a developer-first API that makes web data accessible, structured, and actionable for any application.

Our Solution

"The world needs perfect web search. You should be able to find all the data you want, no matter how complex your need."

You should be able to make searches like "get me every tech article published this week about AI safety" or "find all companies in the healthcare space with recent funding rounds". You can't make these searches because today's search engines use old technology that's optimized for ads, not developers.

WebSearchAPI.ai is the first API that's optimized to return exactly what you ask for. We're an applied AI lab developing a novel neural approach to search. And we offer this search capability via an API – no ads, just quality results.

Our ultimate goal is perfect web search accessibility – giving developers full control over the web's data that we all share.

How we're doing it

Novel neural search architectures

We train novel architectures for web search using end-to-end neural networks. Unlike keyword methods, neural methods get better with more compute and will win in the long run.

Web-scale infrastructure

Building a search API requires massive-scale infrastructure. There are billions of webpages that need storing, processing, indexing, and serving at high throughput.

Who's doing it

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Oliver Harris

CEO & Co-Founder

Previously led AI innovation at DeepSearch UK

PhD in Artificial Intelligence from University of Cambridge

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Ethan Turner

CTO & Co-Founder

Built scalable search infrastructure at WebCore Ltd

MSc in Computer Science, University of Oxford

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James Bennett

Lead Engineer

Engineered large-scale data processing at SearchStream

BEng in Software Engineering from Imperial College London

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Sophie Campbell

Head of Product

Led product strategy at API Solutions Ltd

MBA from London Business School, BSc in Information Systems

You?

We're looking for exceptional engineers and researchers who are passionate about building the future of web search APIs. If you're excited about tackling complex problems in distributed systems, LLMs, and search infrastructure, we'd love to hear from you.

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Our journey so far

2021

The journey begins

Started building WebSearchAPI.ai with a vision to make web data easily accessible to developers through a powerful, intelligent API.

2022

Early breakthrough

Developed our first neural search architecture capable of understanding complex search queries and returning structured results.

2023

Beta launch

Released our API to early adopters, gathering feedback and continuously improving our models and infrastructure.

2024

Full platform release

Launched our complete platform with enhanced capabilities, developer SDKs, and an interactive playground for testing and exploration.

"Our ultimate goal is perfect web search — to give users full control over the web's data that we all share."