Removing your personal information from people-search sites can feel pretty overwhelming. There are hundreds of these sites in the U.S. alone. In fact, the Privacy ...

Once something is on the internet, it’s almost impossible to take it down. But Google now makes it easier for anyone to request the removal of their personal information from Google’s own search ...

Google has updated its Results About You tool. Now, it proactively searches for personal information and alerts you if it finds any. When you get this alert, you can ask Google to remove the ...

People-search sites are the fast-food outlets of the industry that peddles Americans’ personal information online, quickly and cheaply serving up data about pretty much anyone. Including you. Try it.

Google has been pushing out a tool for removing personally identifiable information—or doxxing content—from its search results. It’s a notable step for a firm that has long resisted individual ...

Anthropic has introduced a web search capability for its Claude AI assistant, intensifying competition in the rapidly evolving AI search market where tech giants are racing to redefine how users find ...

Chirag Shah receives funding from National Science Foundation (NSF). The prominent model of information access before search engines became the norm – librarians and subject or search experts ...