Google's Chrome divorce still on the cards as Trump's DoJ plays hardball
$1M donation to inauguration fund and a personal appearance by Pichai appear to have been pointless
Applications10 Mar 2025 | 34
Search Engine
Google teases AI Mode for search, giving Gemini total control over your results
It's just an opt-in Labs curio for now, but so were those ever-present Overviews
Personal Tech06 Mar 2025 | 34
Tired of begging, Microsoft now trying to trick users into thinking Bing is Google
If you can't beat 'em, just imitate their branding, hide yours and hope they don't notice
Personal Tech06 Jan 2025 | 79
Guide for the perplexed – Google is no longer the best search engine
Opinion Seek and ye shall find
Applications16 Dec 2024 | 204
Microsoft has reached $1M giveaway levels of desperation to attract users to Bing
Stuffing it full of AI hasn't helped, so let's try financial incentives
Software04 Nov 2024 | 72
Yelp accuses Google of being a local search bully in antitrust lawsuit
Chocolate Factory claims rival is trying to revive cases it's already lost
Legal29 Aug 2024 | 8
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OpenAI unveils AI search engine SearchGPT – not that you're allowed to use it yet
Launching in Beta is so 2014. We're in the prototype limited sign-up era now
AI + ML25 Jul 2024 | 2
Microsoft adds generative search to its Bing engine
Looks a lot like Google's AI Overviews, hopefully without some of the early unfortunate summaries
AI + ML25 Jul 2024 | 5
Google finally addresses those bizarre AI search results
Suggesting people eat rocks or put glue on pizza? Yeah, that's some artificial intelligence right there
Personal Tech31 May 2024 | 88
Encrypted email service files DMA complaint claiming it vanished from Google Search
Tuta cries foul, Chocolate Factory denies service unreachable
Applications26 Apr 2024 | 62
AI spam is winning the battle against search engine quality
interview 'Not all AI content is spam, but I think right now all spam is AI content'
AI + ML13 Apr 2024 | 39
Notepad++ dev slams Google-clogging notepad.plus 'parasite'
Updated Imitator seemingly swiftly sunk from search after plea to users for help
Applications09 Apr 2024 | 106
Google is wrong to put AI search features behind paywall, says HPC leader
Interview 'A huge amount of responsibility to ensure that there is ethical management'
AI + ML08 Apr 2024 | 34
Google ponders making AI search a premium option
Ad-free search experience might not be on the cards
AI + ML04 Apr 2024 | 20
Google's AI-powered search results are loaded with spammy, scammy garbage
Be careful where you click
Personal Tech25 Mar 2024 | 35
It's crazy but it's true: Apple rejected Bing for wrong answers about Annie Lennox
Cupertino only wanted to be with Google for search – despite the prospect of buying Bing outright
Personal Tech26 Feb 2024 | 60
Google flushes cached search results forever
Chap in charge hopes the Internet Archive is willing to pipe in historical search results as a substitute
Software05 Feb 2024 | 29
Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse
Updated 'Search engines seem to lose the cat-and-mouse game that is SEO spam,' says study
Personal Tech17 Jan 2024 | 112
Apple slams Android as a 'massive tracking device' in internal slides revealed in Google antitrust battle
Whinges about Chrome maker's privacy stance while taking billions to, er, use its search engine
Personal Tech03 Nov 2023 | 41
Microsoft CEO whinges about Google's default search deals
Alleges it achieved dominance through nefarious means – but who would do such a thing?
Software03 Oct 2023 | 23
US Department of Justice claims Google bought its way to web search dominance
We're just better, says Big G
Off-Prem13 Sep 2023 | 29
Yahoo! comeback! continues! as! fresh! listing! planned!
Boss says it has traffic galore and a beautiful balance sheet
Personal Tech05 Jul 2023 | 18
Search engines don't always help chatbots generate accurate answers
Research shows developers have to find new ways to manipulate information for AI
AI + ML07 Jun 2023 | 5
Hong Kong's state-sponsored SEO on national anthem strikes the right note
Can't get Google to finish the job, though
Legal20 Mar 2023 | 13
'Major' news: Microsoft slips Bing chatbot shortcut into Windows 11
Celebrated, unhinged search tool pushed in latest OS update
AI + ML01 Mar 2023 | 22
Google's $100b bad day demo may be worth the price
Opinion Bad AI is bad, bad search is worse
AI + ML13 Feb 2023 | 73
Hong Kong ups its SEO game to stop Google playing a protest song as its national anthem
It's not the anthem – it's the algorithm
Off-Prem12 Jan 2023 | 9
Microsoft chases Google with ChatGPT-powered Bing
Software behemoth infusing search engine with AI machines that go Bing!
AI + ML04 Jan 2023 | 31
China's Baidu enters quantum computing chat with Qian Shi system
A small but functional quantum system accelerating science, not search
Science25 Aug 2022 | 2
Australian court overturns 'Google is a publisher' decision
Precedent essentially meant that search results could be considered defamatory, which is dumb
Personal Tech17 Aug 2022 | 43
Microsoft Bing censors politically sensitive Chinese terms
Updated Research claims it fails to autofill certain names in Han characters, Microsoft says it's technical error
Research20 May 2022 | 22
Off the grid, Day 10: Yandex's only datacenter outside of Russia still running on diesel
Updated Russia's Google desperately seeking energy deal for Finland DC after local renewables supplier terminates agreement
On-Prem05 May 2022 | 22
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