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Perplexity takes a shine to Chrome, offers Google $34.5 billion

Could the most popular browser change hands?

AI + ML12 Aug 2025 | 34

Perplexity vexed by Cloudflare's claims its bots are bad

AI search biz insists its content capture and summarization is okay because someone asked for it

AI + ML05 Aug 2025 | 25

Reddit is people! Which means its search might not be so damaged by AI slop

Community content site aims to profit from real conversation

AI + ML02 Aug 2025 | 32

Google AI Overviews are killing the web, Pew study shows (again)

ai-pocalypse Summarizing online content is good for the search giant, not so much for publishers

AI + ML22 Jul 2025 | 25

Perplexity rips another page from the Google playbook with its own browser, Comet

Built on Chromium, ironically

AI + ML09 Jul 2025 | 30

Google faces UK clampdown as watchdog floats market power rules

CMA roadmap outlines potential restrictions on how ad slinger operates in the country

Personal Tech24 Jun 2025 | 6

The AIpocalypse is here for websites as search referrals plunge

Turn out the lights, the internet is over

AI + ML22 Jun 2025 | 150

Microsoft set to pull the plug on Bing Search APIs in favor of AI alternative

Devs told to swap raw results for LLM-generated summaries as August shutdown looms

Software15 May 2025 | 38

Europe plots escape hatch from enshittification of search

Plus: How to make Google less unhelpful

Software14 May 2025 | 93

Apple exec sends Google shares plunging as he calls AI the new search

Updated Eddy Cue tells DC court Safari to rope in Anthropic, OpenAI and co

Personal Tech07 May 2025 | 45

Brit watchdog probes Google's search, ads empire

Third front opened amid continued scrutiny from US, Euro regulators

Personal Tech14 Jan 2025 | 4

Reddit rolls out AI-powered 'Answers' search feature, redditors don't rejoice

Many users unhappy with current state of search, want to know why this got priority

AI + ML09 Dec 2024 | 22

Google must face £7B UK class action over search engine dominance

Ad slinger alleged to have abused position, resulting in higher prices for consumers

Software26 Nov 2024 | 24

Google expands visual, audio search, lets AI handle layout

AI Overviews get links to referenced websites – and ads

AI + ML03 Oct 2024 | 3

Google paying to be default search on phones is totally against antitrust law, judge rules

Web giant to seek second opinion after bench labels biz 'a monopolist' in DoJ win

Applications05 Aug 2024 | 48

Google keeps the cost of AI search flat, and kids are lovin' it

As the G-Cloud brings in big bucks and plentiful profit

AI + ML24 Jul 2024 | 3

Yandex sells off Russian ops, remaining Euro-biz now Putin itself about as Nebius Group

Two-year legal saga ends with Netherlands-based entity ready to bring diverse AI interests to the world

Legal16 Jul 2024 | 21

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 | 46

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 | 161

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