Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and utilities category, with a focus on energy-saving advice, thermostats, and heating and cooling. Jon has more than a decade ...

A federal judge's mild ruling in the Justice Department's suit over Google's search engine monopoly has critics worried that ...

AI Overviews summarize from a variety of sources (e.g., forums, how-to articles, blog posts, etc.) and increasingly, video ...

No Chrome divestiture, no choice screen, but big changes for search defaults, index access, and AI competition are coming.

For the past two decades, Google has been the kingmaker when it comes to search engine optimization (SEO) and online visibility. For some people, if you weren’t on the first page of search results, ...

As Emtage noted, Google “harnessed human decision-making” to their advantage, placing it top of the pecking order - as it currently commands an 89.83% share of the global search engine market - and ...

A software engineer from New York got so fed up with the irrelevant results and SEO spam in search engines that he decided to create a better one. Two months later, he has a demo search engine up and ...