Want to keep your web browsing more private? A good first step is looking at how you can search the web anonymously - or at least, more anonymously. There are plenty of practical benefits, from ...

Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo wants to protect your data when searching online. Here's how to use it on your phone and computer. Shelby Brown (she/her/hers ...

Google confirms the page experience update finished rolling out to desktop search results. Now it’s time to assess the impact. The update started rolling out on desktop on February 22, making it a ...

When it comes to looking something up on the web, most of us default to “googling” it—Google's search engine has become so dominant that it's now a verb, in the same way that Photoshop is. But using ...

What’s the first thing you think of when you read the words “web search”? According to market share data, nine out of ten of you would say “Google,” or at least that’s the web search of choice ...

Core Web Vitals are the subset of Web Vitals that apply to all web pages, should be measured by all site owners, and will be surfaced across all Google tools. Each of the Core Web Vitals represents a ...

Google is rolling out a new search labs experiment feature named Web Guide. Web Guide uses AI to organize the results page, grouping web links into helpful categories with added context and insights, ...

In context: Google has drawn rising criticism over the added features of its search engine in recent years. As the company introduces fully AI-generated summaries of search results, it has also added ...

Google will no longer be keeping a backup of the entire Internet. Google Search’s “cached” links have long been an alternative way to load a website that was down or had changed, but now the company ...

Core Web Vitals don’t boost AI rankings — except when performance fails badly enough to hurt trust and engagement, this ...