New attack poisons sources AI chatbots use for content. Public sites like YouTube and Yelp abused to host spam links. AI answers can surface poisoned content and put users at risk. Cybercriminals are ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I don't know about you, but I'm tired of seeing AI used in place of actual search results in my web browser or used to summarize whatever I'm ...

Faced with mounting backlash, OpenAI removed a controversial ChatGPT feature that caused some users to unintentionally allow their private—and highly personal—chats to appear in search results. Fast ...

Mandatory AI summaries have come to Google, and they gleefully showcase hallucinations while confidently insisting on their truth. I feel about them the same way I felt about mandatory G+ logins when ...

Over half of Google searches now end without a click. Although “zero-click” results have been around for a while, they’ve become even more prevalent with the rise of AI Overviews and other SERP ...

Generative AI is changing how users search. With instant answers from AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and other tools, many searchers no longer need to click through to websites – especially for informational ...

GOOGLE has rolled out a new feature in the UK, which allows users to customise their search results page based on their own ...