A former Google Search engineer launched Athena to help brands appear in AI-generated answers. Profound raised $20 million to monitor how chatbots relay brand information across platforms. Marketers ...

Forget Google Search: I found a search tool that doesn't track me or push AI - and it gets better ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has released several new trial exhibits as part of the ongoing remedies hearing. These exhibits include interviews with two key Google engineers – Pandu Nayak and HJ Kim ...

A software engineer from New York got so fed up with the irrelevant results and SEO spam in search engines that he decided to create a better one. Two months later, he has a demo search engine up and ...

Reddit is unifying search with its AI Q&A. It's goal: to become an end-to-end discovery engine where users finish, not just start, queries.

The recent court ruling forcing Google to relinquish its lucrative deal as Apple's default search engine has ignited speculation about the tech giant's next move. This question alerted people to think ...

DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused search engine that offers a unique alternative to traditional search engines by not tracking your searches or serving targeted ads. To make the most of its features, ...

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Ryan Moulton, a Google Search engineer who works on Google's search rankings algorithms for over 18 years now, went to X to call out some of what the courts are saying as not true. He went on to say, ...

As search engine incumbents — namely Google — amp up their platforms with GenAI tech, startups are looking to reinvent AI-powered search from the ground up. It might seem like a Sisyphean task, going ...

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