Imagine strolling down a busy city street and snapping a photo of a stranger then uploading it into a search engine that almost instantaneously helps you identify the person. This isn't a hypothetical ...

Microsoft has been around in the tech world for a long time. Some of their projects, like Windows and Xbox, have been massive hits, while others, like Zune and Windows Phone, never really got their ...

What just happened? As Google uses generative AI and other features to change how users search the internet, many have expressed the desire to turn back the clock on search engines. Thanks to a ...

Now, with Google rolling out its AI Mode, the big change is that it embraces the conversational style pioneered by ChatGPT as ...

In June 2000, Google announced that it had won the search wars. “Google will now provide the default search service for Yahoo!” wrote founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page with a very 2000 sign-off: ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

In the era of search wars fought between giants, it’s tough to be small. Berlin-based Ecosia offers a search engine for the climate-conscious, promising to be carbon-negative by investing all of its ...

The Google interface we know today will be gone in less than three years. As ridiculous as this prediction may seem, I remember back in 2004 when Google.com finally overtook Yahoo.com. For eight years ...

Mark Sanderson received funding from Microsoft Research in 2018. In his landmark ruling against Google earlier this week, United States district judge Amit Mehta said the tech giant has built “the ...

Like the compass, light bulb and other once-revolutionary tools, the search engine has taken its place in the barely noticeable background of contemporary life. Using Google Search might invite as ...