Microsoft to integrate AI into Windows 11 for smarter search and taskbar functionality
The new features will roll out in early 2025
The DOJ could force Google to sell Chrome and detach Android
Google plans an appeal, with hearing scheduled for April and a final decision set for August
ChatGPT now has its own web search engine
OpenAI is challenging Google in its own search turf
The Zero Click Internet
The internet is undergoing the biggest change since its inception. It's huge. And there is no going back. The web is changing into the Zero Click Internet, and it will change everything.
Breaking up Google to restore search competition is on the table, says DOJ
Google says the proposals are taking things too far
US government takes Google to court over $31 billion digital ad monopoly, trial starts today
Google recently lost a separate landmark case against the DoJ over its search monopoly
Yelp accuses Google of antitrust violations in fresh lawsuit
The crowd-sourced search engine wants to level the playing field for vertical search
US is considering breaking up Google, targeting Android and Chrome
The move comes after the DOJ found the company monopolized the online search market
Is Mozilla the one to suffer the consequences of Google's antitrust defeat?
A hot potato: Mozilla has a close relationship with Google, as most of Firefox's revenue comes from the agreement keeping Google as the browser's default search engine. However, the search giant is now officially a monopoly, and a future court decision could have an unprecedented impact on Mozilla's ability to keep things "business as usual."
Google is officially a monopoly: Company loses massive DOJ antitrust trial over search engine agreements
Google paid over $21 billion in 2021 to make its search engine the default on various devices and browsers
What just happened? The US Department of Justice's nearly year-long case against Google over its dominance in the search engine market has reached a dramatic end. The case could drastically alter how numerous devices and web browsers choose their default search engines, though the full extent of the impending effects remains unclear.
OpenAI unveils prototype search engine "SearchGPT"
A new AI tool or the next Google challenger?
Bing is rolling out generative search to counter Google's awful AI overviews
Hopefully it won't hallucinate as much as Google
Yandex, the Russian search and internet giant, has been sold for $5.4 billion
The new EU-based company will invest heavily in AI, cloud, and Nvidia GPUs
Google Search ditches endless scrolling, brings back pagination
Out with the new, in with the old
Google defends failing AI search, while promising improvements
AI Overviews struggle with satire, lack of information, and confusing queries
Leaked documentation uncovers some of Google's secret recipe for website ranking in search results
No actual source code is included, but SEO specialists are going crazy nonetheless
Google search AI Overviews uses terrible information sourcing to give you terrible answers
Google downplays the bad answers, saying they "aren't representative of most people's experiences"
Microsoft Recall AI will log everything you do on Windows
It will all be processed and stored on-device, thankfully
Six ways to eliminate the unhelpful "AI Overviews" in Google search results
"Instead of results, give me an AI summary that plagiarizes articles," said nobody ever
Archie, the first search engine, has been resurrected
A monthslong search uncovers a pivotal piece of internet history
Pushy Microsoft app wants you to "repair" your PC by switching to Bing
Another day, another new tactic from Microsoft
Google search "Web" filter takes users back to 10 blue links – no AI, no BS
In context: Google has drawn rising criticism over the added features of its search engine in recent years. As the company introduces fully AI-generated summaries of search results, it has also added a mode that strips those results down to simple web links. Some users might appreciate the gesture, but others complain that obtaining straightforward text results, like in the early days of Google, now requires extra clicks.
Google Search will soon incorporate AI-generated summaries everywhere, but flaws to that plan immediately emerge
"AI Overviews" means to offer detailed search results with context, despite hallucinations and stolen content