I am no fan of Google. But forcing the company to sell off Chrome – which is exactly what the government aims to do in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit – threatens to break the open Internet far more than ...

Google privately told a federal court that “the open web is already in rapid decline,” a sharp reversal from its public claims that search traffic is booming — and a stunning admission as the Justice ...

Is the web thriving or faltering? Google has an unexpected take in a new legal filing. Google is heading back to court soon in hopes of convincing a judge that it should not have to split up its ad ...

"It's clear from the preceding sentence that we're referring to 'open-web display advertising' and not the open web as a whole." Is it? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Google said in a legal filing last week that the open web "is already in rapid decline." The company later said this was being misinterpreted and filed a clarification with the court. Google execs ...

In a major change in tune, Google has admitted that the “open web is already in rapid decline” — despite being adamant for months that the “web is thriving.” As first spotted by The Verge, the tech ...

For nearly 30 years, Google organized the internet — now it’s dismantling it. In a desperate move to survive the rise of AI competitors like ChatGPT and Perplexity, Google has begun cannibalizing the ...