New Google Court Doc: Open Web Is In Rapid Decline

Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, said in May that web publishing is not dying. Nick Fox, VP of Search at Google, said in May that ...

Google got caught saying the open web is in ‘rapid decline,’ and publishers are up in arms about its AI ‘content theft’

Google says the web is thriving and it’s in “rapid decline,” as publishers accuse it of “theft” and being a “bad actor.” So ...

Google Darksteel AI Search Option Test

Google is testing a new AI Search based option codenamed Darksteel. This reminds me of when we caught Google testing 47 ...
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Google says ‘the open web is in rapid decline’ weeks after arguing in favor of AI

It’s not the first time Google has stood up to argue in favor of the health of the web today, but a statement from an ongoing court case admits that “the open web is in rapid decline,” somewhat ...
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Google ‘Web Guide’ lab uses AI to organize the Search results page

Beyond AI Overviews and AI Mode, Google is working on “Web Guide” to better organize Search results into categories with additional context and insights. Simply, “Web Guide groups web links in helpful ...
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A.I. Start-Up Perplexity Offers to Buy Google’s Chrome Browser for $34.5 Billion

The tiny start-up hopes to take advantage of an upcoming antitrust ruling against the tech giant. By Cade Metz and Cecilia Kang In an unlikely bid that shows the growing brashness of young artificial ...
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I broke up with Google search. It was surprisingly easy.

My experiment in ditching Google search felt like quitting coffee. The first few days, I was jittery. I kept double searching on Google and DuckDuckGo, the non-Google web search engine I was using, to ...