Disable Google's AI summaries by setting up your browser to default to the web tab using custom search engines. Use the hyphen operator in search to filter out irrelevant results, such as social media ...

A federal judge’s remedy stops short of making meaningful changes to how we use our phones, computers and the web. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer and the ...

While our dependence on Google may have subsided a little due to ChatGPT and other chatbots, it's still a great resource to find unique human takes, fact-check claims, and get up-to-date ...

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a shake-up of Google's search engine in a crackdown aimed at curbing the corrosive power of an illegal monopoly while rebuffing the U.S. government's attempt to ...

Google is testing Web Guide in Search Labs. Web Guide is an AI-powered feature that groups search results by topic in the Web tab. The system uses Gemini and a “query fan-out” method to reorganize ...

A federal judge ruled that Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta's decision comes nearly one year after he ruled Google ...

Google is touting AI as the biggest upgrade to Search in its history – claiming more queries, higher quality clicks, and a healthier web. But a new blog post (authored by Liz Reid, VP, head of Search) ...

Numerous studies indicate that the shift to AI search features and the use of AI chatbots are killing traffic to publishers’ sites. But Google on Wednesday denied that’s the case, at least in ...

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 ...

Nearly one in five sources in Google’s AI answers now comes from Google itself, with many citations leading to more Google Search results. Google’s AI Mode is increasingly citing Google itself — and ...