Google says a change takes just a few steps, but a panel of designers found otherwise. The issue is at the heart of a federal antitrust trial. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen, the lead consumer ...

Google will be removing more search features in the coming months, but it has not disclosed the full list of which features.

Google has added a new user agent to its help documentation named Google-CWS. This is the Chrome Web Store user agent that is a user-triggered fetchers. More details. Google posted about the new user ...

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 ...

As Google grew in size and influence over the years, the tech giant also grew to exercise an awful lot of power over the shape of the internet, and its data-hungry tendrils reach into nearly every ...

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 ...

The AI search engines also arguably have an advantage in being able to weave pre-trained “internal knowledge” in with data ...

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This low-profile search engine from a tiny company matches Google in most ways that matter—and caters to serious searchers on a whole different level. I’m not sure when it first occurred to me that ...

Google Search may still be the search engine to rule them all, but it’s no longer the best way to find content online. There’s a plethora of AI search engines and platforms that, I’d argue, do a much ...

The 749 million confirmed URL removals is actually slightly lower than the 784 million link removal requests that Google ...