Google has avoided the worst-case scenario in the pivotal search antitrust case brought by the US Department of Justice. More than a year ago, the Department of Justice (DOJ) secured a major victory ...

Court filings in Google’s antitrust case revealed FastSearch, a proprietary system few search marketers have heard of. It sits at the core of how Google grounds its AI Overviews, prioritizing speed ...

Google is rolling out a series of changes to its Search and Discover pages, the company shared across multiple announcements. The updates will bring new AI-powered features to these key destinations, ...

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When the government launched an antitrust lawsuit against Google five years ago, it was all about whether the tech giant had a monopoly on internet search. But by the time the judge ruled on ...

Earlier this month, when U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta issued penalties against Google for monopolizing the search engine market, he stopped short of the harshest ones — like forcing the breakup of ...

A judge has determined penalties against Google to address its illegal online search monopoly. The judge won't force Google to sell off its Chrome browser, as the DOJ requested. But the tech company ...

Google will soon use Gemini 3 for more complex queries within Google Search. Jonathon Heard, Google’s industry head for insurance, told this to an audience at Simply Business’s London headquarters ...

Reverse image search helps you find the origin of a photo and similar photos. While many services offer reverse image search, using Google Search is relatively straightforward and built into the ...

In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, Reddit accused an AI search engine, Perplexity, of conspiring with several companies to illegally scrape Reddit content from Google search results, allegedly dodging ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I report on media as well as its intersection with news and culture. [Sept. 8: This post has been updated, below.] Google just ...