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 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 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, ...

Google's extensive web crawling capabilities, significantly exceeding competitors like OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, and Meta ...

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 ...

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 experimenting on a new Web Guide feature which helps organize search results into specific categories and gives users the most relevant data to their web queries. This is the latest Search ...

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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 ...

(Bloomberg) -- Google can train its search-specific AI products, like AI Overviews, on content across the web even when the publishers have chosen to opt out of training Google’s AI products, a ...

Apple Prepares AI-Powered Siri Upgrade With Google Search Integration Your email has been sent What will the AI-enhanced Siri do? Underlying search system Financial and personnel considerations are ...