Google is synonymous with search. But if you’re looking for a more privacy-centric alternative, there are several options ...

A site owner blamed Google AI Search for falsely saying their site was offline. The explanation was a lesson about content ...

Chinese search engine operator Baidu plans Friday to start letting smartphone app users to directly tell OpenClaw AI to ...

From small publishers to US federal agencies, websites are reporting unusual spikes in automated traffic linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China.

The relentless addition of artificial intelligence in popular apps raises questions about what’s at stake. The answer: the ...

One of the weirdest corners of the Internet is suddenly hard to find on Bing, after the search engine inexplicably started blocking approximately 1.5 million independent websites hosted on Neocities.

Forget Google Search: I found a search tool that doesn't track me or push AI - and it gets better ...

Yahoo has announced a new AI-powered "answer engine", dubbed Yahoo Scout. The new tool is available now in beta and is powered by Anthropic's Claude. The company says Scout "synthesizes" info from 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 ...

For a generation of businesses, winning on Google meant winning the market. That assumption is now breaking. AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity—powered by large language models ...

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 ...