I remember 1996 like it was yesterday. Banner ads were booming, and AltaVista was the coolest search engine around. The internet was flipping business models upside down, unlocking opportunities no ...

This year’s conference included another change to search, this one more profound but less aggressively deployed. “AI Mode,” which has similarly been in beta testing for a while, will appear as an ...

AI bots want to help with your web searches as well as everything else, and Claude is the latest artificial intelligence assistant to get the ability to look up information online—whether that's the ...

An iPhone displays Google AI Mode, an experimental search mode that uses artificial intelligence and large language models to generate interactive search results, on March 24, 2025. (Smith ...

Google launches Web Guide, an experimental AI feature that clusters search results into topic groups. Available now in Search Labs. Google is testing Web Guide in Search Labs. Web Guide is an ...

For the last two decades, Google has brought people a list of algorithmically selected links from the web for any given search query. At I/O 2025, Google made clear that the concept of Search is ...

Anthropic's AI assistant Claude now searches the web, providing current information with source citations for paid US users. Claude can now search the web for up-to-date information. The feature ...

Anthropic has introduced a web search capability for its Claude AI assistant, intensifying competition in the rapidly evolving AI search market where tech giants are racing to redefine how users find ...

Are you worried about online privacy? Not a fan of anticompetitive practices? Maybe you just want a new take on web search?

Despite thousands of languages spoken worldwide, only a small fraction are meaningfully represented online. Most of what we see in search results, AI outputs, and digital platforms is filtered through ...