Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Federico Guerrini is a reporter covering tech policy and AI. Signs saying to use Ecosia and not Google, against Industrial live ...

Ecosia begins using its own search index in France, part of a joint effort with Qwant to reduce reliance on U.S. tech providers. Ecosia is now partially independent from U.S. search providers, It's ...

Christian Kroll, a German entrepreneur, created Ecosia in 2009 from his Berlin apartment, where it became the world's first non-profit search engine. He continues to run the non-profit as its CEO.

Google still dominates Gen Z search habits despite rising social media usage; study shows. Google remains the top starting point for internet searches, even among Gen Z. Social media platforms like ...

The complex and consequential antitrust trial against Google and its search engine practices recently heard its closing arguments, and the tech giant is already planning to appeal. In a post made on X ...

OpenAI recently made two big adjustments to ChatGPT. People who pay for the company’s $20-a-month ChatGPT Plus subscription can now prompt it to browse the internet, although ChatGPT is locked into ...

Britain’s antitrust watchdog is labeling Google a “strategic” player in the online search advertising market, paving the way ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to protect Google from a year-old order requiring a major makeover of its Android ...

With search today so full of AI slop and sites spamming SEO tricks, it’s not unusual for people to append “reddit” to their queries in hopes of finding useful answers to their questions. Google has ...

Shares of Google parent Alphabet Inc. tanked more than 7% on Wednesday after a senior Apple executive signaled that the iPhone maker was looking at search engine alternatives for its Safari web ...

Cloudflare today announced a new feature that allows you signal via robots.txt whether your content can be used in Google’s AI Overviews (as well as for AI training). How it works. The policy adds ...

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 ...