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Google’s in-house docs about search ranking leak online, sparking SEO frenzy

Updated GitHub trove details API features that 'contradict' Big G’s public statements about how its engine works

Devops29 May 2024 | 39

Google thinks AI can Google better than you can

Multimodal models promise machines can do more – if you let them

AI + ML15 May 2024 | 43

OpenAI insists it's not launching a search engine nor GPT-5 on Monday

Sheesh, you just can't trust anything on the internet, huh?

AI + ML11 May 2024 | 16

Relax, Google's drop in search market share in April was just an illusion

Decline shown in data from StatCounter attributed to 'anomaly'

Personal Tech03 May 2024 | 18

Google Search results polluted by buggy AI-written code frustrate coders

Analysis Pulumi claims it has culled bad infrastructure-as-code samples

AI + ML01 May 2024 | 42

Encrypted email service files DMA complaint claiming it vanished from Google Search

Tuta cries foul, Chocolate Factory denies service unreachable

Applications26 Apr 2024 | 62

Amazon search results now less self-centered, boffin says

Self-preferencing pushback in Europe and US seems to have had some effect

Networks12 Apr 2024 | 8

Google sued by more than 30 European media orgs over adtech

Meanwhile, the Google News Initiative is pushing AI tools for publishers

Legal29 Feb 2024 | 6

Search chatbots? Pah, this startup's trying on Yahoo's old outfit of web directories

Interview AI is here to stay though conversations won't necessarily replace queries

Personal Tech10 Feb 2024 | 19

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

Google is changing how search results appear for EU citizens

Updated Ad slinger bends to the demands of the DMA

Personal Tech18 Jan 2024 | 33

Google mulled offering paid-for no-logging private Search subscription

Also: Antitrust trial exhibits signals Incognito mode isn't truly private and 100M users may be underage

Personal Tech08 Nov 2023 | 24

Bing Chat so hungry for GPUs, Microsoft will rent them from Oracle

Frenemies in multi-year deal to offload AI inference to Big Red super-cluster

AI + ML07 Nov 2023 | 23

Alphabet CEO testifies in Google Search trial: We pay billions to keep Apple at bay

As Uncle Sam releases internal docs on Chrome strategy, MSN, more

Personal Tech30 Oct 2023 | 17

13-year Google privacy settlement pays litigants the equivalent of a Big Mac meal

Chocolate Factory agrees $23m guilt-free settlement

Legal25 Oct 2023 | 14

Google pays Apple $18B to $20B a year to keep its search in iPhone

Bernstein estimates value of agreement, warns it and similar deals may end if DoJ wins antitrust case

Personal Tech10 Oct 2023 | 12

Google on trial: Feds challenge deals that set your web search defaults

Big G wheels out its old argument that its products are better - and look, there they are, pre-installed and in your face

Personal Tech20 Sep 2023 | 27

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

GitHub dumps frustrating code search engine for Rust-powered Blackbird

Here's hoping for fewer head-desk moments for devs

Devops09 May 2023 | 6

OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT plugins, granting iffy language model access to your apps

Analysis Search aspired to the the command line to the world, but ML models may get there first

AI + ML26 Mar 2023 | 11

GitHub claims source code search engine is a game changer

When grep isn't good enough, try Blackbird

Devops07 Feb 2023 | 52

If your Start menu or apps are freezing up on Windows, Microsoft has a suggestion

No, it's not install Fedora Linux, sadly

OSes26 Jan 2023 | 100

Google's Alphabet to review every project after $6bn decline in profits

Headcount swelled by almost 37,000 in a year, now investors want CEO Pichai to show them the money

Off-Prem26 Oct 2022 | 45

Google promises to adjust search algorithm to favor 'people-first content'

Well now there's an idea

Personal Tech19 Aug 2022 | 54

Brave Search leaves beta, offers Goggles for filtering, personalizing results

Freedom or echo chamber?

Personal Tech23 Jun 2022 | 8

Bing! Microsoft tests search box in the middle of Windows 11 desktop

Attempt to be interactive meets cries of 'Someone dumped a text box right in the center of my desktop!'

OSes19 May 2022 | 49

Alternative search providers write letter to EU complaining that Google antitrust action achieved diddly-squat

Interview 'There's no independent search engine really, other than Google and Bing'

Applications07 Oct 2021 | 26

Wikimedia Foundation to offer community's free content via paid-for Enterprise API

Looking for a service-level agreement? Have we got a deal for you

SaaS17 Mar 2021 | 9

Australia picks third fight with Big Tech, this time over browser and search on mobile devices

Regulator keen to know how Android Choice works in the EU, what makes the Google/Apple relationship tick, and if Salesforce buying Slack is a problem

Legal12 Mar 2021 | 4

Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling – and may even offer a paid-for, no-ad version

Pitches pro-privacy platform with customizable results filter dubbed Goggles

Applications03 Mar 2021 | 30

How do we combat mass global misinformation? How about making the internet a little harder to use

Column We’re blinded by our trust of the Search box and its inscrutability

Networks08 Feb 2021 | 162

Wait ages for an antitrust battle and three come along at once: Google sued by 38 US states over search monopoly

Silicon Valley titan allegedly screwed rivals with exclusionary agreements

Personal Tech17 Dec 2020 | 15

DuckDuckGo cries fowl after being expunged from Google's Android search preferences menu for most of Europe

Pro-privacy upstart claims EU antitrust remedy is not fit for purpose

Security29 Sep 2020 | 35

Google creates $10bn 'digitisation fund' for India

Localisation and transformation plan wins prime ministerial approval, but as usual has as much upside for Google as for its generous hosts

Legal14 Jul 2020 | 3

'Google cannot stop it, control it or curtail it...' Inside the murky world of fake addiction treatment center search spam

Special report Is that listed phone number going direct to a professional or a call center?

Personal Tech02 Jul 2020 | 20

Google Australia says government pulled pin on content-for-cash talks, hands in its homework anyway

And fires back with 'we do for free what meatspace distributors charge for' argument

Personal Tech04 May 2020 | 8

Australia to make Google and Facebook disclose ranking algorithms and pay for local content

Months of negotiation on voluntary code of conduct didn’t make progress

Personal Tech20 Apr 2020 | 35

French monopoly watchdog orders Google to talk payment terms with French publishers

Copying article snippets could get costly, if web giant doesn't ditch them altogether

Personal Tech10 Apr 2020 | 38

Yelp finally gets its chance to tell US Congress how Google screws its listings service every minute of every day

Testimony claims search engine giant favours own products and services, even when they're rubbish

Personal Tech11 Mar 2020 | 38

Everyone loves our new desktop web search design so much – the one with ads that look like links – that we're tweaking it, says Google

Updated Unpopular opinion: Adverts are a bit more distinct with this new style, but OK, internet, you win

Personal Tech24 Jan 2020 | 45

No Mo'zilla for about 100 techies today: Firefox maker lays off staff as boss talks of 'difficult choices' and funding

Enjoy that new version 72? Donate.mozilla.org is a thing, folks

Software16 Jan 2020 | 76

Google goes full Anti-Flash-ist, boots Adobe's insecure monstrosity out of web search index

Crawler bots to snub animated content starting this year

Personal Tech29 Oct 2019 | 55

Tinfoil-hat search engine DuckDuckGo gifts more options, dark theme and other toys for the 0.43%

Includes setting to turn ads off – stop hissing at the back, Google

Software16 Oct 2019 | 139

Breaking, literally: Microsoft's fix for CPU-hogging Windows bug wrecks desktop search

One step forward, er, one step back. Nobody gets too far like that

OSes11 Sep 2019 | 80

Google may have taken this whole 'serverless' thing too far: Outage caused by bandwidth-killing config blunder

Engineers struggled to restore own packet-starved systems during four-hour SNAFU

SaaS04 Jun 2019 | 69

Have you always wanted an algorithm that can search like Bing? Well, if you change your mind, one's on GitHub now

Make your app answer all the easy questions, like, 'Where can I download Chrome?'

Software15 May 2019 | 15

Everything's just fine at Google's mothership: $1.7bn EU fine, slower growth take their toll

Alphabet quiet on cloud business results, other bets lose a small fortune

SaaS30 Apr 2019 | 10

Comparison sites cry foul over Google Shopping service

Original complainants say pay-to-play remedy has left them in the cold

Legal22 Nov 2018 | 17

Google: All right, screw it, from this Christmas, Chrome will block ALL adverts on dodgy sites

Enough with the abusive ads, says ad-dependent biz

Personal Tech05 Nov 2018 | 40

Sure, Europe. Here's our Android suite without Search, Chrome apps. Now pay the Google tax

Ad giant to charge for key applications amid license shakeup and antitrust fine

Personal Tech17 Oct 2018 | 180

Google keeps tracking you even when you specifically tell it not to: Maps, Search won't take no for an answer

Location, location, location!

Software13 Aug 2018 | 175

Amnesty slaps Google amid crippled censored China search claims

Chocolate Factory kowtows to Middle Kingdom mandarins, according to leaked info

Legal01 Aug 2018 | 45

Infosec bod wagers web bookie BetVictor is lax on password protection

Updated Thought your gambling site was secure? Don't bet on it

Security27 Jun 2018 | 4

We need baby Googles, say search specialists… and one surprising VC

Break 'em up, nothing else works

Legal01 Mar 2018 | 39

How Google's black box Knowledge Graph can kill you

Comment Factoid flu

Bootnotes19 Dec 2017 | 26

Mozilla and Yahoo! trade sueballs over Firefox-Google search deal

'Your search is trash and you stopped paying ' vs. 'we had a deal you can't walk away from'

Software06 Dec 2017 | 15