Part of the reason Google decided to start developing its own Chrome browser—all the way back in 2008—was to funnel people toward all of its web apps, from Google Docs to Gmail to Google Maps. And of ...

Google is among the most popular search engines, with about 5.9 million searches per minute or roughly 8.5 billion daily searches. But the browser is known to track people in various ways, including ...

The shift from traditional search engines to AI-powered answer engines signals more than a technical upgrade. It marks a fundamental change in how people discover, evaluate, and act on information.

Crawlability is the ability for search engines to access and navigate your website’s pages. It’s what allows your content to be discovered, indexed, and shown in search results. Without crawlability, ...

Google Search may still be the search engine to rule them all, but it’s no longer the best way to find content online. There’s a plethora of AI search engines and platforms that, I’d argue, do a much ...

Have you ever found yourself frustrated with traditional search engines—endlessly scrolling through ads, irrelevant results, or worrying about your data privacy? In today’s world, where information is ...

Robots.txt just turned 30 – cue the existential crisis! Like many hitting the big 3-0, it’s wondering if it’s still relevant in today’s world of AI and advanced search algorithms. Spoiler alert: It ...

Artificial-intelligence tools offer a variety of approaches to help scientists to sift through the literature — how can researchers use them responsibly? Artificial-intelligence (AI) tools are ...