A federal jury has ordered Google to pay $425.7 million for improperly snooping on people’s smartphones during a nearly ...

After a five-year legal showdown pitting the U.S. Justice Department against Google, a federal judge concluded the disruptive ...

Search and ye shall … most likely be tracked. But a growing number of people want to search without leaving a trail, which is why privacy-focused search engines like DuckDuckGo and Brave Search are ...

According to recent research by Boon Brokers, 81% of its homeowner and mortgaged respondents have used search engines to find mortgage advice or information, but 74% did not always check whether the ...

Search Engine Land » Guides » Content decay: What it is and how to fix traffic drops Share If you’ve published content before, especially blogs or resource pages, you’ve probably noticed that some ...

Ecosia begins using its own search index in France, part of a joint effort with Qwant to reduce reliance on U.S. tech providers. Ecosia is now partially independent from U.S. search providers, It's ...

Cloudflare accused AI answer engine Perplexity of “stealth crawling,” saying it uses deceptive techniques to bypass website blocks and access content it’s been explicitly told not to touch. The big ...

Reddit, like nearly every major tech company right now, is going all-in on AI, and its next big bet is transforming itself into a full-blown search engine. SEE ALSO: Google reveals Reddit Answers is ...

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.

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After the implosion of Reply All (also on this list), the pioneering podcast that investigated mysteries of the internet, co-host PJ Vogt set out on his own. His new venture, Search Engine, is a ...