The internet makes connecting with old friends and acquaintances easier than ever, but it also exposes personal information to advertisers, scammers and potential criminals. Hundreds of websites have ...

Google Ads are not going anywhere. Eventually, AI Search results on Google and likely other properties will have ads. Google recently reported $56.57 billion in revenue from ads on Search and YouTube.

Microsoft is rolling out a new version of the Snipping Tool in Windows 11, which might be worth paying attention to. The big news with this update is that Microsoft is adding a visual search feature ...

Bing now supports the data-nosnippet HTML attribute, letting websites exclude specific page sections from search snippets and AI-generated answers in Bing. Websites can exclude selected sections from ...

Microsoft is rolling out the new and updated Bing Places for Business. “Today, we are excited to announce the launch of the new Bing Places for Business experience —an evolution shaped by deep user ...

Google is officially launching its AI-powered Search Live feature in the U.S. on Wednesday, which enables mobile users to get real-time information with their voice and phone camera. Previously ...

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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 ...

Does Microsoft's search engine have what it takes to compete with the all-powerful Google? After testing Bing and Google side by side on basic search, news, shopping, AI features, and much more, we ...

Microsoft’s search engine has taken market share from Google since its AI overhaul two years ago. Microsoft’s search engine has taken market share from Google since its AI overhaul two years ago. is a ...

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.

Chatbots are becoming the go-to source for online answers for many consumers, chipping away at the dominance of traditional web search and adding another avenue of outreach that brands must cultivate ...