Google cofounder Larry Page had a vision for search engines 25 years ago that sounds eerily close to what its AI product ...

If you access the internet on the regular, you likely do so using a web browser. There's a myriad of web-browsing platforms to choose from, all with their own slate of features that fit all types of ...

For many people Google is search — they’ve simply never considered an alternative. But there are plenty of search engines other than Google, offering benefits such as increased privacy, environmental ...

Google will soon take more steps to make AI a part of search, exposing more users to its Gemini agent, according to recent reports and app teardowns. “AI Mode,” shown at the top left of the web ...

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Part of the reason Google decided to start developing its own Chrome browser—all the way back in 2008—was to funnel people toward all of its web apps, from Google Docs to Gmail to Google Maps. And of ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday, May 8, 2025, during a hearing on American AI competitiveness. (Screenshot via U.S. Senate livestream) A U.S.

Earlier this week, a federal court ruled that Google's lucrative default search engine deal with Apple violates antitrust law. Google plans to appeal the decision and the court hasn't provided insight ...

Recent discussions on Reddit are no longer showing up in non-Google search engine results. The absence is the result of updates to Reddit’s Content Policy that ban crawling its site without agreeing ...