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 ...

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 may have to change the way its search engine works in the UK, including potentially offering users the option to choose rival search services, as part of new regulation from the UK’s ...

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 ...

LONDON, June 24 (Reuters) - Britain's competition regulator said it may force Google to rank businesses more fairly in search results and offer alternative services to consumers, marking the first use ...

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 ...

In March 2024, website owner Morgan McBride was posing for photos in her half-renovated kitchen for a Google ad celebrating the ways the search giant had helped her family’s business grow. But by the ...

UK publishers are demanding an opt-out from Google’s AI Overviews in search. They argue these AI summaries reduce website traffic and revenue, echoing an earlier antitrust complaint from EU publishers ...

Numerous studies indicate that the shift to AI search features and the use of AI chatbots are killing traffic to publishers’ sites. But Google on Wednesday denied that’s the case, at least in ...

Despite a rough start back in May 2024, the AI Overviews on Google search results have become standard for many queries. Almost 50% of all Google searches are now returning AI Overviews in results, ...