Google vs Unbrowse
The best way to understand Unbrowse is to compare it to something you already know: Google.
How Google Works
In the Early Days
When Google started, it had to slowly crawl web pages one by one, and results took time.
Over the years, Google built something revolutionary: a web index — a massive, constantly updated library of everything it has already seen online.
Today
When you type a query into Google, it doesn't actually search the live internet from scratch or analyze trillions of pages.
Instead, it looks up results from this pre-built index — a gigantic "database" of information.
That's why it can deliver relevant answers in milliseconds rather than minutes.
The Innovation
This concept of indexing changed how humans interact with the web:
Instead of manually visiting thousands of pages, we now rely on Google's ready-made "map" of online knowledge.
How Unbrowse Works (The Same Principle)
Unbrowse works on the same principle, but it indexes actions for agents, not information.
What Google Indexes
Google stores what's written on each page:
Article content
Product descriptions
Blog posts
News articles
What Unbrowse Indexes
Unbrowse stores how things are done:
How to buy a product
How to book a flight
How to post on LinkedIn
How to log into a bank
How to retrieve account data
The Parallel
Google's Process
Crawl: Bots visit websites and collect content
Index: Content is stored in searchable database
Query: User searches for information
Retrieve: Google returns pre-indexed results
Display: User gets answer in milliseconds
Unbrowse's Process
Capture: Users browse normally, network patterns recorded
Index: Patterns stored as reusable "abilities"
Query: Agent searches for an action (e.g., "book flight")
Retrieve: Unbrowse finds matching ability from index
Execute: Agent performs action via network request
The Key Difference
Indexes information (what's written)
Indexes actions (what can be done)
Built for human searches
Built for AI agents
Answers "Where can I find this?"
Answers "How can I do this?"
Uses a pre-built library of pages
Uses a pre-built library of abilities
Example: "Find flights to Tokyo" → shows websites
Example: "Book flight to Tokyo" → executes the process
The Power of Pre-Indexing
Without an Index (Traditional Approach)
Google without an index:
Every search would take minutes or hours
Would need to visit millions of sites in real-time
Results would be slow and unreliable
AI agents without Unbrowse:
Every action requires figuring out how the site works
Must visually analyze and guess where to click
Takes 30-45 seconds per action with 70-85% success rate
With an Index
Google with an index:
Results in milliseconds
Highly reliable
Already knows where information is
AI agents with Unbrowse:
Actions complete in <1 second
95%+ success rate
Already knows how to interact with sites
Real-World Example
Google's Value
User: "Best restaurants in Tokyo"
Without Google: You'd need to manually visit thousands of restaurant websites, travel blogs, and review sites. Hours of work.
With Google: 0.3 seconds later, you have a curated list of top recommendations.
Unbrowse's Value
Agent: "Book flight to Tokyo for January 10"
Without Unbrowse: Agent would need to visually navigate multiple airline websites, figure out form fields, handle popups, and hope nothing breaks. 5-30 minutes per attempt with 70% success rate.
With Unbrowse: 0.3 seconds later, the agent has executed the network-level booking request with 95%+ reliability.
How the Index Grows
Google
Automated bots crawl websites continuously
New content indexed within hours or days
Coverage improves as more sites are crawled
Users benefit from collective knowledge
Unbrowse
Users browse normally with extension installed
Every browsing session creates new "abilities"
New sites indexed as people naturally use them
Agents benefit from collective patterns
The Network Effect
Google's Flywheel
More websites → Better search results → More users
↑ ↓
More revenue ← More ads ← More user engagementUnbrowse's Flywheel
More indexers → More abilities → Better agent success
↑ ↓
Token burns ← Revenue ← More agent usage ← More developersThe Transformation
What Google Did
Before Google: The web was there, but hard to navigate After Google: Information instantly accessible to everyone
Google made the web searchable for people.
What Unbrowse Does
Before Unbrowse: Websites exist, but agents can't reliably use them After Unbrowse: Any action instantly executable by any agent
Unbrowse makes the web actionable for AI.
The Market Opportunity
Google's Impact
Started as a Stanford research project
Became critical internet infrastructure
Now worth over $1.5 trillion
Processes 8.5 billion searches per day
Unbrowse's Potential
Starting as AI agent infrastructure
Becoming the access layer for agentic internet
Enabling billions of agent actions per day
Capturing value through usage-based economics
The Analogy in One Sentence
Just as Google indexed the web's information so you could find anything instantly, Unbrowse indexes the web's actions so agents can do anything instantly.
Next: Learn How It Works (Simple) with a step-by-step walkthrough.
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