Google is apparently having trouble identifying paywalled content due to a standard way paywalled content is handled by publishers like news sites. It’s asking that publishers with paywalled content ...

In a nutshell: Google recently confirmed that JavaScript is now required for users to submit queries to its web search service. According to a company spokesperson, the new requirement will improve ...

Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript, the widely used programming language to make web pages interactive, in order to use Google Search. In ...

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, ...

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 ...

Don’t know something? Don’t “Google” it — “TikTok” it. The kids these days are abandoning the trusty search engine in favor social media and other unorthodox means of online research. Pulling data ...

Rolling out starting today, Google Search results will now directly link to The Internet Archive to add historical context for the links in your results. Google Search makes it easy to find ...

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: ...

To secure its position as the search engine giant, Google broke the law, a district court judge decided Monday. In the conclusion of a massive, multiyear legal battle, Amit P. Mehta, a judge of the ...

A federal U.S. judge ruled Monday that Google has illegally held a monopoly in search and text advertising. The court homed in on Google's exclusive search arrangements on Android and Apple's iPhone ...

The folks at Vercel and MERJ put together a super deep dive on how Google Search handles indexing JavaScript. They analyzed over 100,000 Googlebot fetches across various sites to test and validate ...

When Sam Altman co-founded OpenAI in 2015, the AI industry was niche. Here’s how he built the company into an $86 billion giant, off the back of Chat-GPT and splashy new products like Sora and GPT-4o.