Cheap tricks, it seems, can only get you so far. Companies that are caught spamming risk being penalized in future search ...

Independent journalism needs a lifeline to survive as Google urges readers toward AI summaries instead of article links.

A new flag in Chrome Canary redirects searches made from the Chrome address bar directly to AI Mode, bypassing Google Search ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

From a reimagined search box to AI agents that hunt for apartments on your behalf, Google Search is being rebuilt with AI at its core. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing ...

Google Search appears to be glitching. On May 22, when users searched a variety of command words, like "disregard," "ignore," "dismiss," "stop" and "start," Google Search, instead of presenting the ...

The search giant’s AI-crafted answers are so convenient, you’ll be sucked in—to the detriment of the web and the artists and thinkers behind it. The search box used to be a portal to the web. The new ...

Say goodbye to the Google search bar you’ve known for 25 years. The company is making it bigger and more interactive. The redesign is a response to AI, which has changed the way people search. Instead ...

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Google Search is getting a facelift − the "biggest update" to the platform in more than 25 years, the tech giant claims. At Google I/O on May 19, Google announced its iconic search bar will change to ...

Google has released the first major update to the search bar, the search box, ever - Google is calling it the intelligent Search box. We saw variations of this being tested over the past year, and now ...

At last year's Google I/O event, we (and most outlets) modestly declared that the Google Search we had known for the past 20 years was dead. Fast forward a year, and it's still really, really dead.