Google privately told a federal court that “the open web is already in rapid decline,” a sharp reversal from its public claims that search traffic is booming — and a stunning admission as the Justice ...

Google said it will let websites opt out of generative AI features in Search. Cloudflare's CEO says that's just a start.

This year’s conference included another change to search, this one more profound but less aggressively deployed. “AI Mode,” which has similarly been in beta testing for a while, will appear as an ...

Google wasn’t around for the advent of the World Wide Web, but it successfully remade the web on its own terms. Today, any website that wants to be findable has to play by Google’s rules, and after ...

Google is asserting that web traffic is not suffering because of AI tools and that its search engine directs visitors to an unprecedented array of websites. But last week, Google contradicted this ...

AI Mode excels at tasks like product research for online shopping. But it falls short on basic web searches. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer and the ...

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, ...

Visits to major US news websites have plummeted since Google rolled out its artificial intelligence search feature last year – with some plunging 40%, according to troubling new data. Of the top 50 ...

PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. Google is testing a new "Web Guide" feature that ...