Google privately told a federal court that “the open web is already in rapid decline,” a sharp reversal from its public claims that search traffic is booming — and a stunning admission as the Justice ...

Elizabeth Reid’s affidavit warns that court-ordered data sharing would expose Google's IP, invite spam abuse, and put user privacy at risk.

When Google answers a question directly, you don't click through to the source. The source gets nothing; no traffic, no ad ...

For over two decades, visibility in search meant fighting for page one on Google. That’s still an important goal, but now it’s only part of the story.

Google is asserting that web traffic is not suffering because of AI tools and that its search engine directs visitors to an unprecedented array of websites. But last week, Google contradicted this ...

Google's extensive web crawling capabilities, significantly exceeding competitors like OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, and Meta ...

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In a Friday court filing, Google’s lawyers wrote: That line directly contradicts what Google executives and representatives have been saying for months. Yet in court, Google is saying the web is ...

It could be a consequential act of quiet regulation. Cloudflare, a web infrastructure company, has updated millions of websites’ robots.txt files in an effort to force Google to change how it crawls ...

Google used to rank content based on keyword matching and PageRank was a way to extend that paradigm using the anchor text of ...