YouTube is enabling users to exclude YouTube Shorts from search results, which is great news for those looking to delve deeper into topics, or enjoy longer-form video content. Users can head to the ...

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, shot down rumors that the AI startup is developing a search engine or launching GPT-5. Instead, he confirmed that a May 13 event is scheduled to talk about "some new ...

It’s been ages since Googling wasn’t the go-to method for finding information. But a new generation of contenders is hoping to put the ubiquitous search giant in our collective rear-view mirrors.

AI, including AI Overviews on Google Search, can hallucinate and often make up stuff or offer contradicting answers when asked in two different ways. A new job listing suggests that Google is hiring ...

In June 2000, Google announced that it had won the search wars. “Google will now provide the default search service for Yahoo!” wrote founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page with a very 2000 sign-off: ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google used to be all about the 10 blue links, but that was then, and this is now. You have to scroll farther than ever to get to the links in Google search results, and now this ...

SEO keeps evolving faster than most of us can handle. If you’re finding it hard to keep up with all the changes in search, you’re not the only one. I’ve talked to dozens of marketing teams this ...

Google used to rank content based on keyword matching and PageRank was a way to extend that paradigm using the anchor text of ...

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Ever heard your grandma tell you that "two buses going in the wrong direction is better than one going the right way"? Of course not, because that's not an actual old saying. Nobody says that unless ...