#searchengines — Public Fediverse posts

FYI: Google loses fight to strip 90%+ of unique queries from EU rivals' data: Rival engines and AI chatbots get daily records, NUTS 3 location and 5-year access at cost-based prices. What does the full text show about Alphabet's campaign? https://ppc.land/google-loses-fight-to-strip-90-of-unique-queries-from-eu-rivals-data/ #Google #EURegulations #DataPrivacy #AIChatbots #SearchEngines

FYI: Google loses fight to strip 90%+ of unique queries from EU rivals' data: Rival engines and AI chatbots get daily records, NUTS 3 location and 5-year access at cost-based prices. What does the full text show about Alphabet's campaign? https://ppc.land/google-loses-fight-to-strip-90-of-unique-queries-from-eu-rivals-data/ #Google #EURegulations #DataPrivacy #AIChatbots #SearchEngines

FYI: Google loses fight to strip 90%+ of unique queries from EU rivals' data: Rival engines and AI chatbots get daily records, NUTS 3 location and 5-year access at cost-based prices. What does the full text show about Alphabet's campaign? https://ppc.land/google-loses-fight-to-strip-90-of-unique-queries-from-eu-rivals-data/ #Google #EURegulations #DataPrivacy #AIChatbots #SearchEngines

FYI: Searches with words used by under 50 people won't reach Google rivals: Rival engines and AI chatbots only get records where 1,000 signed-in users share region, device and language. First data deliveries could come in early 2027. https://ppc.land/searches-with-words-used-by-under-50-people-wont-reach-google-rivals/ #Google #AI #searchengines #digitalmarketing #SEO

FYI: Searches with words used by under 50 people won't reach Google rivals: Rival engines and AI chatbots only get records where 1,000 signed-in users share region, device and language. First data deliveries could come in early 2027. https://ppc.land/searches-with-words-used-by-under-50-people-wont-reach-google-rivals/ #Google #AI #searchengines #digitalmarketing #SEO

FYI: Searches with words used by under 50 people won't reach Google rivals: Rival engines and AI chatbots only get records where 1,000 signed-in users share region, device and language. First data deliveries could come in early 2027. https://ppc.land/searches-with-words-used-by-under-50-people-wont-reach-google-rivals/ #Google #AI #searchengines #digitalmarketing #SEO

FYI: Searches with words used by under 50 people won't reach Google rivals: Rival engines and AI chatbots only get records where 1,000 signed-in users share region, device and language. First data deliveries could come in early 2027. https://ppc.land/searches-with-words-used-by-under-50-people-wont-reach-google-rivals/ #Google #AI #searchengines #digitalmarketing #SEO

FYI: Searches with words used by under 50 people won't reach Google rivals: Rival engines and AI chatbots only get records where 1,000 signed-in users share region, device and language. First data deliveries could come in early 2027. https://ppc.land/searches-with-words-used-by-under-50-people-wont-reach-google-rivals/ #Google #AI #searchengines #digitalmarketing #SEO

Ars Technica: Google complies with EU rules for travel searches, says the new results stink. “As the world’s largest search engine, Google is often a target of Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which seeks to rein in Big Tech. The European Commission hit Google with a hefty 460 million euro ($543 million) fine in July for preferring its own services in searches for travel and shopping. […]

Global News: Privacy watchdog takes Google to court over ‘right to be forgotten’ case. “Canada’s privacy commissioner is asking the Federal Court to order Google to de-list specific search results, after Google refused to comply with the watchdog’s recommendations. The privacy commissioner’s office said a year ago that Google wouldn’t implement its recommendation to de-list specific […]

Reuters: Google changes spam policy in EU to avert antitrust fine. “The EU said ​that its monitoring showed that Google’s spam policy demoted news media ​and other publishers’ websites and content in Google search results, when those websites include content from commercial partners. Google said that from August 30 any manual actions ​taken to demote sites would not apply to users in […]

Ars Technica: Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment. “In the mid-’90s, the web was exploding, but finding anything of actual value on it felt like an elaborate negotiation with whatever proto-search engine happened to be standing closest to the door. Unlike now, when Google is widely seen as both portal and gatekeeper, sites like AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, HotBot, and […]

#Business #Outlooks
The future of the website · “Not dead. Not even close. But different.” https://ilo.im/16epyp

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#Websites #Authenticity #SearchEngines #SEO #AI #MCP #Design #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend

#Business #Outlooks
The future of the website · “Not dead. Not even close. But different.” https://ilo.im/16epyp

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#Websites #Authenticity #SearchEngines #SEO #AI #MCP #Design #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend

#Business #Outlooks
The future of the website · “Not dead. Not even close. But different.” https://ilo.im/16epyp

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#Websites #Authenticity #SearchEngines #SEO #AI #MCP #Design #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend

#Business #Outlooks
The future of the website · “Not dead. Not even close. But different.” https://ilo.im/16epyp

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#Websites #Authenticity #SearchEngines #SEO #AI #MCP #Design #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/07/16/google-plans-pinterest-style-discovery-feed-for-images-xcxwbn/

Google plans a Pinterest-style, personalized Google Images discovery gallery with saved collections for web and AI generated images.

#AI #GoogleImages #Google #GoogleSearch #SearchEngines #Pinterest #GoogleSearchAIMode #NanoBanana #AIImages

OnlyFans Models Are Accidentally Making Hacked Government Websites Disappear

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/onlyfans-creators-dmca-hacked-government-websites/

Top Google Security Staff Warn Search Data Could Be Hacked if EU Rules Change

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/top-google-security-staff-warn-search-data-could-be-hacked-thanks-to-eu-plans/

Gizmodo: DuckDuckGo, Unable to Resist the Pull of AI, Mistakenly Claims Trump Died of Rabies. “President Donald Trump has passed away after succumbing to a rabies infection given to him by Vice President J.D. Vance, who also died of rabies. That news comes to us via the AI-generated search results provided by privacy-centric search engine DuckDuckGo.”

Search Engine Roundtable: Study: Adding Schema Did Not Improve AI Citations On Google, ChatGPT & More. “A new study from Ahrefs says that adding schema (structured data) does not and did not boost citations on any of the AI platforms including Google (AI Overviews or AI Mode), ChatGPT and others. ‘Adding schema produced no major uplift in citations on any platform,’ Ahrefs wrote.”

Mashable: Ask.com shuts down after 30 years. “Ask.com, originally founded as the Y2K stalwart Ask Jeeves, is officially dead. ‘As IAC continues to sharpen its focus, we have made the decision to discontinue our search business, which includes Ask.com. After 25 years of answering the world’s questions, Ask.com officially closed on May 1, 2026,’ the homepage now reads.”

Ask Jeeves Shut Down

https://www.ask.com/

#HackerNews #AskJeeves #Shutdown #AskJeeves #Nostalgia #TechHistory #InternetMemories #SearchEngines

Search Engine Land: Can a fake brand win in AI search? New experiment says yes. “We wanted to look beyond rankings and understand how AI systems discover, interpret, and cite information. So we expanded the project into a more ambitious set of experiments on AI search and LLM visibility. For the next phase, we created a new fictional brand in a real niche with real competition to see how […]

TechSpot: Google adds search to Play Store reviews to improve app discovery. “Most Android users rely on Play Store reviews to decide which apps to install. But sifting through hundreds – or even thousands – of reviews has rarely been convenient. Google is addressing that with a new search function that lets users find specific information within app reviews, a small but meaningful […]

Spotted on Reddit: OrthoScience . From the About page: “OrthoScience is a free, specialized search engine designed exclusively for orthopedic professionals. Unlike general-purpose databases like PubMed or Google Scholar, OrthoScience indexes only orthopedic literature — giving you faster, more relevant results without the noise of unrelated specialties. With over 500,000 articles from 165 […]

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/02/09/cloudflare-google-search-monopoly-ai-data-advantage-xcxwbn/

Cloudflare: Google Abuses Search Monopoly for 4.8x AI Data Advantage

#AI #Google #Cloudflare #BigTech #Search #AITrainingData #AICrawlers #AITraining #Content #Publishers #SearchResults #SearchEngines

Google Blog: Google Search is celebrating 250 years of America.. “This digital kickoff, which won’t fizzle out until after July 4, 2026, is just the spark. Throughout the year, we’re rolling out additional initiatives designed to actively empower Americans as we celebrate 250 years — from bringing America’s natural beauty and shared heritage to life for explorers across the country, to […]

Tom’s Hardware: Search pioneer AltaVista’s star shone bright with a clean and minimal UI 30 years ago — engine lost momentum after multiple ownership changes and the embrace of the web portal trend. “We’ve already sketched out the explosive but almost accidental success that the youthful AltaVista would see. Its architecture, mixing a web crawler dubbed Scooter and a back-end index server […]

Reddit Accuses ‘Data Scraper’ Companies of Theft - In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Goo... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/reddit-data-scrapers-perplexity-theft.html #copyrightsandcopyrightviolations #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #robberiesandthefts #perplexityaiinc #searchengines #corporations #socialmedia #innovation #openailabs #start-ups #googleinc #redditinc #serpapi

@SuperDicq @Vivaldi
#VivaldiBrowser's most important thing is the #UI. #OpenSourcing it all would still mean letting others take it, no matter of how it is with others.
After all, #VivaldiTechnologies is a company that relies mainly on this. Some people complain about #DirectMatch and #sponsored #searchEngines, even though they are removable. If they would #openSource it, soon there would appear a “#debloated #Vivaldi” version #forked by some people. How would Vivaldi make money then, I ask you?

Search Engine Land: Google still leads, but Gen Z and AI are reshaping search behavior: Survey. “Searching is no longer synonymous with ‘Googling.’ While traditional search engines still dominate for information retrieval, Americans are also turning to social media, AI tools, and ecommerce platforms, depending on what they’re searching for and who they are.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/05/google-still-leads-but-gen-z-and-ai-are-reshaping-search-behavior-survey-search-engine-land/

Search engines in a nutshell

#SearchEngines #Google #Bing #DuckDuckGo #ZoTop #SearxNG #Brave #Qwant #Startpage #SwissCows #Mojeek #Ecosia #Lilo #Stract #Marginalia #MullvadLeta #Kagi

https://www.jeey.net/google.html

🔍✨ Behold! Mullvad Leta, the revolutionary keyboard shortcut list everyone was dying to find—because who doesn't love scrolling through an endless menu of search engines and countries? 😂 In other news, "Ctrl+F" wants its job back. 🚀👀
https://leta.mullvad.net #MullvadLeta #KeyboardShortcuts #SearchEngines #Productivity #CtrlF #HackerNews #ngated

Search Engine Land: Bing pushes ad-heavy search results with 7+ sponsored listings. “Microsoft Bing appears to be testing an aggressive new ad display format that dramatically reduces organic search visibility in favor of sponsored content.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/23/search-engine-land-bing-pushes-ad-heavy-search-results-with-7-sponsored-listings/

I just discovered Old'aVista.

https://oldavista.com/

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintageweb #altavista #searchengines #nostalgia #archive #computinghistory

This workweek felt longer than usual because Thursday had me going to Dallas and back for an upcoming story. As booked, this itinerary would have put about 17 hours between my stepping off my front porch in the morning and returning to my house late at night, but as flown it returned me home three hours later than planned, almost 21 hours after I’d woken up. Patreon readers, I hope you will enjoy my upcoming recap of that prolonged day.

7/22/2024: Why the Tech Industry Refuses to Learn From Disastrous Outages, The New Republic

A friend filling in at TNR–the same one who helped me get my first byline at that publication last July–asked if I could turn around a post about lessons from the CrowdStrike calamity. I said I could, received an editorial green light for my pitch at 11:37 a.m., got useful quotes from three of six subject-matter experts I’d hit up for comment, and filed the piece at 5 p.m. sharp.

7/23/2024: TikTok, YouTube Battle for Satisfaction Supremacy, Facebook Hate Calms a Bit, PCMag

In my latest coverage of the American Customer Satisfaction Index’s ratings of social-media and search-engine firms, I called out the contradiction between search operators having such closely-spaced satisfaction rankings and Google’s overwhelming dominance of the market.

7/23/2024: Sydney Sweeney’s X Account Reportedly Hijacked Via (Yet Another) SIM Swap, PCMag

The celebrity angle didn’t make me want to cover the account takeover that 404 Media’s Joseph Cox reported, but seeing a telecom carrier once again apparently fall prey to a SIM-swap attack made me want to remind readers that this risk is not going away. And that they should not depend on text-message-based two-factor authentication for the most important accounts in their lives.

7/24/2024: Buttigieg Plays the Long Game on EVs, But He’s Not Sold on the Cybertruck, PCMag

I didn’t have Tuesday night’s Axios event featuring Secretary Pete on my calendar until Monday, when an e-mail from that publication listed it among other upcoming events. I was pleasantly surprised to see that it hadn’t hit capacity by the time I signed up.

7/26/2024: Senators: Your Driving Data May Have Been Sold For as Little as 26 Cents, PCMag

Two days later, I returned to the topic of cars to cover how Sens. Ed Markey (D.-Mass.) and Ron Wyden (D.-Ore.) documented how readily and how cheaply some car manufacturers will sell off driving-behavior data to data brokers.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/07/28/weekly-output-tech-monocultures-social-media-satisfaction-sim-swap-attacks-pete-buttigieg-connected-cars-and-data-brokers/

#ACSI #connectedCarPrivacy #connectedCars #CrowdStrike #electricCars #EVs #ITMonoculture #PeteButtigieg #searchEngines #SIMSwap #socialMediaSatisfaction #SydneySweeney #TNR #XAccountTakeover

Sundar Pichai explained why Apple gets paid so much more for its default deal - Enlarge / Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai departs federal court o... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1979877 #departmentofjustice #googlemonopolytrial #searchengines #antitrustlaw #onlinesearch #sundarpichai #monopolylaw #antitrust #googleceo #alphabet #google #policy

Google C.E.O. Sundar Pichai on the A.I. Moment: ‘You Will See Us Be Bold’ - In an extended interview, Mr. Pichai expressed both optimism and worry about the state of... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/technology/google-pichai-ai.html #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #searchengines #microsoftcorp #pichaisundar #openailabs #brinsergey #googleinc #chatgpt

#ChatBots #AskJeeves #Search #SearchEngines: "The original conception for Jeeves, Gruener told me, was remarkably similar to what Microsoft and Google are trying to build today. As a student at UC San Diego in the mid-1970s, Gruener—a sci-fi aficionado—got an early glimpse of ARPANET, the pre-browser predecessor to the commercial internet, and fell in love. Just over a decade later, as the web grew and the beginnings of the internet came into view, Gruener realized that people would need a way to find things in the morass of semiconnected servers and networks. “It became clear that the web needed search but that mere mortals without computer-science degrees needed something easy, even conversational,” he said. Inspired by Eliza, the famous chatbot designed by MIT’s Joseph Weizenbaum, Gruener dreamed of a search engine that could converse with people using natural-language processing. Unfortunately, the technology wasn’t sophisticated enough for Gruener to create his ideal conversational search bot."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/03/ask-jeeves-chatgpt-bing-ai-chatbot-google-search/673275/

Google Calls in Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. Fight - A rival chatbot has shaken Google out of its routine, with the founders who left three ye... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/technology/google-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence.html #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #siliconvalley(calif) #raghavanprabhakar #deanjeff(1968-) #microsoftcorp #searchengines #pichaisundar #alphabetinc #youtube.com #brinsergey #walkerkent #openailabs #googleinc #pagelarry

Verizon Near Deal to Sell Yahoo and AOL - In making the deal with the private equity firm Apollo, Verizon is acknowledging that it ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/02/business/verizon-yahoo-aol-sale.html #5g(wirelesscommunications) #verizoncommunicationsinc #computersandtheinternet #wirelesscommunications #onlineadvertising #searchengines #armstrongtim #yahoo!inc #aolinc

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One question, that we've not seen answered, is what #HashingAlgorithm does is use? Is it the same as bitcoin facilitating #AtomicSwaps or is it different?

Indeed articles we've seen don't even touch on basics such as whether its #ProofOfWork, #ProofOfStake or #ProofOfBrainActivity. Its a huge oversight and maybe a deliberate attempt by #corporateSponsored #searchEngines to maintain a level of ignorance.

By dumbing down the details, they can avoid proper scruitiny.

This Week in Tech: What on Earth Is a Quantum Computer? - The question isn’t so easy to answer. Also, Google’s founders stepped away just as their company e... more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/06/technology/what-is-quantum-computer.html?emc=rss&partner=rss #driverlessandsemiautonomousvehicles #computersandtheinternet #huaweitechnologiescoltd #quantumcomputing #searchengines #facebookinc #brinsergey #googleinc #pagelarry #research #gildario #muskelon

This Week in Tech: What on Earth Is a Quantum Computer? - The question isn’t so easy to answer. Also, Google’s founders stepped away just as their company e... more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/06/technology/this-week-in-tech-what-on-earth-is-a-quantum-computer.html?emc=rss&partner=rss #driverlessandsemiautonomousvehicles #computersandtheinternet #huaweitechnologiescoltd #quantumcomputing #searchengines #facebookinc #brinsergey #googleinc #pagelarry #research #gildario

How Google’s Founders Slowly Stepped Away From Their Company - Larry Page and Sergey Brin became billionaires thanks to the success of Google. But toward the end... more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/technology/google-larry-page-sergey-br.html?emc=rss&partner=rss #driverlessandsemiautonomousvehicles #appointmentsandexecutivechanges #android(operatingsystem) #computersandtheinternet #thrunsebastian #searchengines #pichaisundar #alphabetinc #youtube.com #brinsergey #googleinc