A decade or so ago, I thought Google needed a newer mission than “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Having ...

A Gemini-powered personal health coach is available in preview for Fitbit Premium subscribers. I let it plan my workouts for ...

Google today rolled out Search Live in the U.S. Before today, Search Live was in Google Labs as an opt-in feature. How it works. Tap the Live icon in the Google app (Android, iOS). What’s new: Unlike ...

Apple plans to launch an AI search engine, reportedly. The AI search experience would power the Siri voice assistant. The expected launch is in the spring as part of the Siri overhaul. Though Apple ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a shakeup of Google’s search engine in an attempt to curb the corrosive power of an illegal monopoly while rebuffing the U.S. government’s ...

Judge Amit P. Mehta said the company must hand over some of its search data to rivals, but did not force other big changes the U.S. wanted. By David McCabe David McCabe has covered the Google search ...

Jason Chun is a CNET writer covering a range of topics in tech, home, wellness, finance and streaming services. He is passionate about language and technology, and has been an avid writer/reader of ...

Update 7/31/25 4:10pm PT: Hours after this article was published, OpenAI said it removed the feature from ChatGPT that allowed users to make their public conversations discoverable by search engines.

Instagram now allows search engines like Google to display public posts on results pages, making it a powerful SEO (search engine optimization) tool for businesses. This is a huge win for business ...

T.J. Thomson receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is an affiliate with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making & Society. Ashwin Nagappa receives funding ...

Google wasn’t around for the advent of the World Wide Web, but it successfully remade the web on its own terms. Today, any website that wants to be findable has to play by Google’s rules, and after ...