If you’ve opened Google recently and felt like you were assigning a task to an assistant rather than typing keywords into a box, you aren’t alone. The ...

Yahoo may not be the most headlined company in tech anymore, but its reach can’t be denied. With nearly 250 million monthly users across the country and 700 million globally, it’s still the second ...

One prioritizes convenience and personalization. The other puts privacy first. Which one should you use? We help you decide. I've been testing PC and mobile software for more than 20 years, focusing ...

Lisa M. Given receives funding from the Australian Research Council and Australia's eSafety Commission. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Association for ...

Search engines have evolved significantly from basic keyword matching to intelligent systems leveraging artificial intelligence (AI). This transformation prompts an important question: when it comes ...

Since last year’s disastrous rollout of Google’s AI Overviews, the world at large has been aware of how AI-powered search results can differ wildly from the traditional list of links search engines ...

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a shake-up of Google's search engine in a crackdown aimed at curbing the corrosive power of an illegal monopoly while rebuffing the U.S. government's attempt to ...

Search and ye shall … most likely be tracked. But a growing number of people want to search without leaving a trail, which is why privacy-focused search engines like DuckDuckGo and Brave Search are ...

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Update 7/31/25 4:10pm PT: Hours after this article was published, OpenAI said it removed the feature from ChatGPT that allowed users to make their public conversations discoverable by search engines.

Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and utilities category, with a focus on energy-saving advice, thermostats, and heating and cooling. Jon has more than a decade ...