CMA targets Google AI overviews in push to loosen search dominance

The UK Competition and Markets Authority is seeking to give publishers more control over how their content is used to power Google’s AI services, as part of a wider push to loosen the Big Tech giant’s ...

Google Search now lets you ask AI Overviews follow-up questions

Google is making Search less about links and more about AI. The company is upgrading its AI-powered search features, adding ...
Forbes

ChatGPT Search Now Free For All. Here’s Why You Should Try It

OpenAI ChatGPT app on App Store website displayed on a screen and OpenAI (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) OpenAI announced today that ChatGPT Search is now available, for free, for ...
CNET

Android's AI Circle to Search Tool Adds New Features, but Can Your Phone Use Them?

Google has been rolling out the AI search tool to older Samsung and Google devices, and today it announced new sharing features. With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google ...
Forbes

10 Alternative Search Engines To Use Instead Of Google

For many people Google is search — they’ve simply never considered an alternative. But there are plenty of search engines other than Google, offering benefits such as increased privacy, environmental ...
The New York Times

Can This A.I.-Powered Search Engine Replace Google? It Has for Me.

A start-up called Perplexity shows what’s possible for a search engine built from scratch with artificial intelligence. By Kevin Roose Kevin Roose used the Perplexity search engine for several weeks ...
CNET

AI Is Taking Over Your Search Engine. Here's What It's Doing and Why It Matters

Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and utilities category, with a focus on energy-saving advice, thermostats, and heating and cooling. Jon has more than a decade ...
SlashGear

6 Alternative Search Engines To Google, And Why You Might Want To Try Them

As Google grew in size and influence over the years, the tech giant also grew to exercise an awful lot of power over the shape of the internet, and its data-hungry tendrils reach into nearly every ...
Engadget

Google Search will now show AI-generated answers to millions by default

Google is shaking up Search. On Tuesday, the company announced big new AI-powered changes to the world’s dominant search engine at I/O, Google’s annual conference for developers. With the new features ...
Wired

With AI Mode, Google Search Is About to Get Even Chattier

Google’s new chatbot-style AI Mode search experience, previously an experiment, is launching for US users. Publishers and marketers will have to adjust their search strategies once again. Google is ...
CBS News

Judge rules Google can keep Chrome, but must share some search engine data with rivals

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a shake-up of Google's search engine in a crackdown aimed at curbing the corrosive power of an illegal monopoly while rebuffing the U.S. government's attempt to ...
Wired

How to Change the Default Search Engine in Google Chrome

Part of the reason Google decided to start developing its own Chrome browser—all the way back in 2008—was to funnel people toward all of its web apps, from Google Docs to Gmail to Google Maps. And of ...