Search firm Exa wants to use the tech behind large language models to tame the wildness of the web. A startup called Exa is pitching a new spin on generative search. It uses the tech behind large ...

It launches today for paid subscribers and will expand to free, enterprise, and education users in the coming weeks. It launches today for paid subscribers and will expand to free, enterprise, and ...

One of the biggest bummers about the modern Internet has been the decline of Google Search. Once an essential part of using the web, it’s now a shadow of its former self, full of SEO-fueled junk and ...

I remember 1996 like it was yesterday. Banner ads were booming, and AltaVista was the coolest search engine around. The internet was flipping business models upside down, unlocking opportunities no ...

Developers should act before governments fall back on blunt tools. In late October, News Corp filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI, a popular AI search engine. At first glance, this might seem ...

An overview of the most widely used search platforms in the world which is based on verified market share data, showing how ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...

Through the looking glass: Companies involved in generative AI, like Google and OpenAI, are envisioning a future where users delegate queries and tasks to chatbots or GenAI agents instead of manually ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

This is the opening chapter of “The Last Click: How AI Agents Are Rewiring the Internet’s Attention Economy,” a series about how AI is changing the web. The email arrived at 3:47 a.m., marked urgent.

In context: AI and zero-click searches are killing the business model of the web that has sustained content creators for the last 15+ years. It's an opinion that is shared by many, including ...

Diamonds aren’t the only thing that lasts forever. The internet keeps everything you’ve ever said, posted, liked, or done while visiting, and it sells it ...