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

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

As you know, Google has appealed its search monopoly ruling and with that, filed a number of new documents with the court. One is an affidavit of Elizabeth Reid, Google's Vice President and Head of ...

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Google wasn’t around for the advent of the World Wide Web, but it successfully remade the web on its own terms. Today, any website that wants to be findable has to play by Google’s rules, and after ...

Google’s John Mueller answered a question about why Google indexes pages that are disallowed from crawling by robots.txt and why the it’s safe to ignore the related Search Console reports about those ...

Now two of Google’s smaller rivals are launching their own indexing project, and the circumstances of their effort may give them better odds at success than past such attempts. The timing for European ...

Google AI Overviews seems to be slower with removing citations/content from its index that it serves for answers, when compared to web search. This includes when a page or section is noindexed or ...

In context: As Google users complain about the worsening quality of search results and GenAI integration, European organizations are working to plant the seeds of alternative solutions. One such ...

Google can train its search-specific AI products, like AI Overviews, on content across the web even when the publishers have chosen to opt out of training Google’s AI products, a vice-president of ...