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 ...

OpenAI on Thursday announced its most direct threat yet to its stalwart Big Tech rivals: a search engine that uses artificial intelligence baked in from the beginning. The company is testing SearchGPT ...

Microsoft Bing is trying a new layout that fills your search results page with AI-generated information. Microsoft Bing is trying a new layout that fills your search results page with AI-generated ...

For many people Google is search — they’ve simply never considered an alternative. But there are plenty of search engines other than Google, offering benefits such as increased privacy, environmental ...

It's not just you: Google search is getting worse. It's more than the annoying new AI box at the top of the results page, which takes a long time to load and tends to spout nonsense. It's also that ...

It’s amazing, and a little sad, to think that something created in 1989 that changed how people used and viewed the then-nascent Internet had nearly vanished by 2024. Nearly, that is, because the ...

This low-profile search engine from a tiny company matches Google in most ways that matter—and caters to serious searchers on a whole different level. I’m not sure when it first occurred to me that ...

A start-up called Perplexity shows what’s possible for a search engine built from scratch with artificial intelligence. By Kevin Roose Kevin Roose used the Perplexity search engine for several weeks ...

This tutorial shows you how you can find a specific text or phrase on all opened tabs in Chrome or Edge on Windows. Is there a way to do a text search across all open tabs in Chrome? Yes, you can ...

The idea of a reverse image search is that you are, to some extent at least, searching in the opposite direction: You're starting with an image that might otherwise be the end result of a search, but ...

A hot potato: A recent study turns the anecdotal feeling that web search results are becoming increasingly useless into scientific evidence. When it comes to product reviews, major search engines have ...