Rumors are currently swirling around when exactly Google's AI Mode will become the default search tool on Google's homepage, ...

Experience a random pain in the 21st century and an internet search usually comes before a call to the doctor. Googling “chest pain,” “high fever,” or “skin rash” calls up a series of blue links ...

Internet security is a constant concern for technology and cybersecurity professionals. With the ever-increasing number of online devices and services, it is important to have a clear and accurate ...

The tool puts OpenAI squarely in competition with the search giants and will help fuel its next generation of AI agents ChatGPT can now search the web for up-to-date answers to a user’s queries, ...

After dominating the generative AI race with chatbots and image generators, OpenAI is taking the fight to Google on the latter's home turf, at least according to a new leak. The Information, citing an ...

Some website owners want to block AI bots while permitting traditional search crawlers. The IETF is working on a solution.

A recent analysis of AI Overviews web traffic from the Pew Research Center suggests AI Overviews results in a substantial drop in web traffic. Google executives have disputed this, claiming the search ...

Thirty years ago, the baby web was just starting to go mainstream, but you could already see a pixelated vision of the world to come. In 1994, the modern Internet (which was almost always capitalized ...

The Internet Archive made it easier to search for '90s-era GIFs. GifCities contains millions of animations from the decade of flannel shirts and Soup Nazis. The GIFs were pulled from old GeoCities ...

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