As promised in May, Google has brought the open-source Gears technology to Apple's Safari, augmenting some browser abilities such as using Gears-tailored Web sites while offline.

Whether Google succeeded in persuading Safari users to switch to Chrome or not is a separate issue. What remains interesting to know is the final judgement of the US Justice Department on the matter.

This would mean Safari users wouldn’t see AI Overviews in search results, but people using Google’s own apps would. Google, however, “ultimately decided against that move,” the report says.

Google is testing a new feature called "Script blocking in Incognito" in Chrome for Windows (Windows 11/10) and Android..

One proposal involved limiting Google's innovative AI Overviews feature - which generates AI-powered responses to search queries - to its own apps, effectively excluding Safari users.

Google got around Safari’s privacy restrictions by exploiting a loophole that allowed the search giant to install a temporary cookie if a user clicked a +1 button embedded in online advertising ...

Last week, it came out that Google has been bypassing privacy settings in Safari, and installing cookies to track the browsing habits of millions of users who didn’t know about the tracking.

Google says that the latest release of its Chrome browser is even faster than Apple’s Safari on M1 Macs, touting the responsiveness improvements it’s made over the past few years.

The threat of Artificial intelligence has become more real for Google now. A huge drop in google search traffic on safari web ...

Users running at least Safari 3.1.1 on Tiger 10.4.11 and Leopard 10.5.3 can grab the Gears for Safari beta (direct .DMG link), but we'd like to echo Google's warning of the perils of beta.