Although Google has been the go-to search engine for more than two decades, there are other search engines that offer more privacy and other features. In February 2025, PCMag.com published an article ...

Google has ended free full-web search for Programmable Search Engine and capped the free tier at 50 domains, forcing partners ...

The search engine has been a key Internet tool since the early days. Before the Web was a thing, I fondly remember Archie (from “archive” without the “v”), which indexed filenames on FTP servers, ...

Artificial intelligence has basically taken over and replace traditional web search engines. You’ve already seen it with AI overviews in Google Search, followed up with OpenAI going the way of ...

As the world today mostly recognizes Google as a verb for search engines, it is difficult to remember a time before Google was created. However, the World Wide Web is full of search engines that time ...

Google is significantly restricting its free search index. Developers will have to switch to paid enterprise services by ...

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Google is facing fresh EU scrutiny that could expand access to its search data and Android AI features, potentially reshaping ...

Search engines and other groups have written to European Union authorities asking them to investigate Alphabet's Google over more concerns that the company could be violating the EU's digital ...

Shares of Google parent Alphabet Inc. tanked more than 7% on Wednesday after a senior Apple executive signaled that the iPhone maker was looking at search engine alternatives for its Safari web ...