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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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

Search Engine Roundtable: Google: Verifying Your Request To Continue To Search Results. “In early August, Google was testing requiring searchers to sign in to verify they are humans to continue to see search results. Now, Google is testing a similar feature without requiring you to sign in, but instead, Google is asking you to click a ‘Continue’ button after a few seconds, after Google verifies […]

Search Engine Roundtable: Google: Verifying Your Request To Continue To Search Results. “In early August, Google was testing requiring searchers to sign in to verify they are humans to continue to see search results. Now, Google is testing a similar feature without requiring you to sign in, but instead, Google is asking you to click a ‘Continue’ button after a few seconds, after Google verifies […]

Search Engine Roundtable: Google: Verifying Your Request To Continue To Search Results. “In early August, Google was testing requiring searchers to sign in to verify they are humans to continue to see search results. Now, Google is testing a similar feature without requiring you to sign in, but instead, Google is asking you to click a ‘Continue’ button after a few seconds, after Google verifies […]

Search Engine Roundtable: Google: Verifying Your Request To Continue To Search Results. “In early August, Google was testing requiring searchers to sign in to verify they are humans to continue to see search results. Now, Google is testing a similar feature without requiring you to sign in, but instead, Google is asking you to click a ‘Continue’ button after a few seconds, after Google verifies […]

Search Engine Roundtable: Google: Verifying Your Request To Continue To Search Results. “In early August, Google was testing requiring searchers to sign in to verify they are humans to continue to see search results. Now, Google is testing a similar feature without requiring you to sign in, but instead, Google is asking you to click a ‘Continue’ button after a few seconds, after Google verifies […]

#NPR and #NewsGuard tested how #AIchatbots and #searchengines handle #falsenarratives spread by #China, #Iran, and #Russia. The experiment found that AI chatbots generally performed better than search engines, debunking false narratives about three-quarters of the time. However, AI summaries at the top of search engine results were less reliable, with varying performance across different products. https://www.npr.org/2026/08/30/nx-s1-5876436/chatbots-search-propaganda?eicker.news #tech #news #ainews

The Guardian: Tell us: do you think AI has made Google search better or worse?. “Google has put artificial intelligence at the front and center of its search bar. The most-visited site on the internet still shows the same list of links to users, but they have to scroll past a summarized response from an AI chatbot, a feature Google calls AI Overviews. The change to what was once the gateway to […]

Poynter: As search and social traffic dries up, local newsrooms turn to Reddit. “Last October, the Big 12 conference issued a rule change that only really makes sense if you watch Big 12 football: Fans at Texas Tech’s Jones AT&T Stadium were no longer allowed to throw tortillas onto the field during the opening kickoff. In another era, it’s a story that The Dallas Morning News — located […]

Reddit-Chef: „Die Menschen wollen #Reddit, keine Zusammenfassung“ | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Internetsuche-Reddit-Chef-haelt-wenig-von-KI-Zusammenfassungen-11393871.html #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #SocialMedia #Suchmaschine #Suchmaschinen #SearchEngine #SearchEngines #GoogleSuche #GoogleSearch #Google :google:

#Ecosia ( @ecosia ) und #Qwant ( @Qwant ) starten deutschen #Webindex | c't Magazin https://www.heise.de/news/Ecosia-und-Qwant-starten-deutschen-Webindex-11383500.html #DigitalSovereignty #SearchIndex #SearchEngine #SearchEngines #Suchmaschine #Suchmaschinen

Why an A.I. Bubble Might Not Be a Bad Thing

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/technology/ai-bubble-venture-capital.html

#Claude-#Datenleck: Tausende Chats in #Suchmaschinen gelandet | Security https://www.heise.de/news/Claude-Datenleck-Tausende-Chats-in-Suchmaschinen-gelandet-11379831.html #Datenschutz #privacy #Datenleck #DataLeak #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #SearchEngine #SearchEngines #Suchmaschine #GoogleSuche #GoogleSearch

MediaPost: Judge Sides Against Google In Search Users’ Antitrust Suit. “Google search users can proceed with an antitrust suit over the company’s search deals with Apple and others, a federal judge ruled this week.”

Kelly Evans: Goodbye, Google – CNBC

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Kelly Evans: Goodbye, Google

Published Wed, Jan 7 20269:51 AM EST

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Kelly Evans, Co-Host of CNBC’s Power Lunch, David A. Grogan | CNBC

For the first time yesterday, when I went to Google (which I do less and less of anymore), it asked me if I wanted to switch over to AI mode. I figured sure, since I’ve been using its AI summaries anyhow, and it put me into what looked like a full-blown version of Gemini or ChatGPT. No ads. No blue links. 

What this tells me is that the era of Google as we knew it is officially over. And I, for one, certainly do not mourn that. As great as the product was when it was first introduced, is as bad as it became towards the end. Good luck finding any really useful links buried beneath all of their ads. Smaller businesses were justifiably furious at having to pay to compete up top against the deep-pocketed big guys for traffic they were rightly owed. 

The search engine, in other words, had become nowhere near as effective as it used to be. And while regulators drool at the opportunity to jump in and set rules and prosecute offenders and collect big fines, it’s far better for society that monopolies are disrupted because they become less useful and leave an opening for better products to break through. 

Enter ChatGPT. 

Now, the irony here is twofold. One, after a few early missteps, Google has answered ChatGPT with its own excellent chatbot, Gemini, that we are using more and more of in our house. (If you want a chuckle, ask it to give you this job/personality test.) Shares of parent company Alphabet soared 65% last year, for the best performance of all the “Magnificent 7.” 

So while it’s goodbye to Google as a search box, the company itself has pivoted nicely, and regulators can at least breathe somewhat easy that they have a formidable rival now, with ChatGPT’s 900 million active weekly users. 

Secondly, the real question is what happens to the entire internet ecosystem that once relied upon Google search traffic. I’m thinking of recipe bloggers, websites like Vice and Buzzfeed that once had hundreds of employees, and so forth. I’m not sure how much of the former internet economy realizes it’s never coming back, and they will have to dream up entirely new business models. 

I also expect the lawyers are salivating. The class action suits against chatbots that scraped the internet of content that people once made a living off of must surely be coming apace. News providers can survive and even thrive in a world where chatbots have to pay to maintain access to up-to-the-minute information for users, but someone who gave the internet their maple-glazed salmon recipe? Forget about it. 

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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?

Lifehacker: Microsoft Is Trying to Trick You Into Using Copilot. “If you use Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, you’ll find many different options for interacting with Copilot. You can click the big Copilot button next to the search bar, or deal with the enormous ‘Copilot Answer’ that appears at the top of any given search result, à la AI Overviews. But if you try to use Bing to search for […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/05/lifehacker-microsoft-is-trying-to-trick-you-into-using-copilot/

Google’s A.I. Search Leaves Publishers Scrambling - Since Google overhauled its search engine, publishers have tried to assess the danger to ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/01/technology/google-ai-search-publishers.html #copyrightsandcopyrightviolations #tribunepublishingcompany #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #newsandnewsmedia #associatedpress #searchengines #newyorktimes #newspapers #openailabs #googleinc

Judge mulls sanctions over Google’s “shocking” destruction of internal chats - Enlarge / Kenneth Dintzer, litigator for the US Department of Justice, ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2021979 #departmentofjustice #googlemonopolytrial #googlesearchads #searchengines #antitrustlaw #usvgoogle #google #policy

Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal - Enlarge (credit: SOPA Images / Contributor | LightRocket)

Goog... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1983539 #departmentofjustice #googlemonopolytrial #googledefaultdeals #onlineadvertising #searchadvertising #searchengines #googlesearch #onlinesearch #antitrust #monopoly #google #policy #safari #apple

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 loses fight to hide 2021 money pit: $26B in default contracts - Enlarge / Prabhakar Raghavan, a senior vice president at Google (where ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1979346 #googlemonopolytrial.sundarpichai #digitalmarketsact #applespotlight #competitionlaw #searchengines #antitrustlaw #googlesearch #policy #google #apple

Google’s 21-year deal with Apple is the “heart” of monopoly case, judge says - Enlarge / Pandu Nayak, Google's vice president of search, was Google's ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1977224 #googleantitrusttrial #departmentofjustice #googlemonopolytrial #onlineadvertising #searchengines #onlinesearch #sundarpichai #microsoft #policy #google #apple

🤔 What does 'open' or ‘freedom' mean in the context of #SearchEngines?

At this year's #OpenSearchSymposium #ossym23 Manuel Theophil from @rptu_transfer tackled questions that reach "beyond ethics". As per this motto he covered a wide spectrum from "myth to logos", from philosophy via technicism and tech solutionism to human rights education … and encouraged the mainly technology-oriented audience to reflect on non-technical issues.

#OpenWebSearch #EthicsInSearch

Friday is #FreeWebSearch Day #FWSD23!

Join the free #EthicsInSearch #webinar:
@FrauPlote + Jasmin Tietgen will take a look at ethical aspects of #WebSearch and #SearchEngines and discuss concrete examples.

⏰ 16.30 CEST, 29 September

https://freewebsearch.org/en/websearch-ethics-webinar/

Lawmakers Urge Tech Companies to ‘Mitigate Harm’ of Suicide Website - A House committee is seeking briefings from search engines and web-hosting companies whos... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/21/technology/suicide-website-google.html #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #housecommitteeonenergyandcommerce #suicidesandsuicideattempts #computersandtheinternet #blumenthalrichard #searchengines #cloudflareinc #microsoftcorp #googleinc

Lawmakers Urge Tech Companies to ‘Mitigate Harm’ of Suicide Website - A House committee is seeking briefings from search engines and web-hosting companies whos... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/21/technology/congress-microsoft-google-suicide-website.html #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #housecommitteeonenergyandcommerce #suicidesandsuicideattempts #computersandtheinternet #blumenthalrichard #searchengines #cloudflareinc #microsoftcorp #googleinc