Are you worried about online privacy? Not a fan of anticompetitive practices? Maybe you just want a new take on web search?

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 ...

Search engines have evolved significantly from basic keyword matching to intelligent systems leveraging artificial intelligence (AI). This transformation prompts an important question: when it comes ...

The search engine has been a key Internet tool since the early days. Before the Web was a thing, I fondly remember Archie (from “archive” without the “v”), which indexed filenames on FTP servers, ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the way we look for information online. Search engines increasingly offer AI-generated answers that keep users on their platforms instead of redirecting them ...

For years, optimizing content meant focusing almost entirely on Google and other traditional engines. But with the rapid rise of generative AI chatbots – tools that don’t just link but summarize – ...

Since last year’s disastrous rollout of Google’s AI Overviews, the world at large has been aware of how AI-powered search results can differ wildly from the traditional list of links search engines ...

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.