The United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on Friday designated Google with a special status in the market for online search that would enable the regulator to enforce stricter ...

Google may have to change the way its search engine works in the UK, including potentially offering users the option to choose rival search services, as part of new regulation from the UK’s ...

What’s the first thing you think of when you read the words “web search”? According to market share data, nine out of ten of you would say “Google,” or at least that’s the web search of choice ...

UK publishers are demanding an opt-out from Google’s AI Overviews in search. They argue these AI summaries reduce website traffic and revenue, echoing an earlier antitrust complaint from EU publishers ...

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 ...

Google’s AI-powered Search experience is now rolling out to everyone and, with it, the web will never be the same again. However, with all of these new layers on top of the “10 blue links,” Google is ...

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 ...

In context: Google has drawn rising criticism over the added features of its search engine in recent years. As the company introduces fully AI-generated summaries of search results, it has also added ...

Google on Thursday is launching a new AI-powered feature called Web Guide for organizing Google Search results. Web Guide is a Search Labs experiment that leverages AI technology to organize the ...

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 ...

Google Search head Liz Reid says traffic remains ‘relatively stable’ despite the popularity of AI Overviews. Google Search head Liz Reid says traffic remains ‘relatively stable’ despite the popularity ...

Google can train its search-specific AI products, like AI Overviews, on content across the web even when the publishers have chosen to opt out of training Google’s AI products, a vice-president of ...