Part of the reason Google decided to start developing its own Chrome browser—all the way back in 2008—was to funnel people toward all of its web apps, from Google Docs to Gmail to Google Maps. And of ...

Google Search may still be the search engine to rule them all, but it’s no longer the best way to find content online. There’s a plethora of AI search engines and platforms that, I’d argue, do a much ...

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In an era where internet privacy is a growing concern, using a search engine like DuckDuckGo can be a significant step towards protecting your online activities. Here are some key tips and tricks to ...

Nearly 30 years ago, when Google launched the search engine that started its long march to dominance, its founders started without much hardware. Known at first as Backrub and operated on the Stanford ...

OpenAI is trying really hard to make ChatGPT Search into a viable product. It's available for free, to all users, without limits. And now, just like with Google Search, it can be used without logging ...

Jason Chun is a CNET writer covering a range of topics in tech, home, wellness, finance and streaming services. He is passionate about language and technology, and has been an avid writer/reader of ...

The search engine has been a key Internet tool since the early days. Before the Web was a thing, I fondly remember Archie (from “archive” without the “v”), which indexed filenames on FTP servers, ...

We are at a uniquely and historically weak moment for Google. The quality of their results has even non-SEOs complaining, against a backdrop of being found illegally maintaining a monopoly and losing ...

It is looking towards a future where the Meta AI model can answer questions or provide information to users based on the indexes they collected from the internet, straying away from Big Tech services.