Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and utilities category, with a focus on energy-saving advice, thermostats, and heating and cooling. Jon has more than a decade ...

When online search engines first appeared, they seemed miraculous. Now, though? It is a truth near-universally acknowledged that search is in the dumps, corroded by spam and ads. Big players like ...

Eight years ago, a friend and I drove from Buffalo to Los Angeles in a 14-year-old Audi station wagon we nicknamed Gerhardt. It was an imperfect car: The brakes didn’t work until the day before we ...

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 ...

Per a report from Adobe Express, 77% of Americans who use ChatGPT treat it as a search engine. 77% of ChatGPT users say they use it as a search engine. Gen Z leads adoption, with 28% starting their ...

Apple reportedly has an AI search in the works. The AI search experience could have a standalone app and power Siri. Timely and strategic release with broader success of AI search engines. With the ...

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 ...