Scientists are exploring how web search engine technology might also keep the lights on, the water running and the trains moving.

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You can still choose how often you see AI-assisted answers, which now incorporate results from the web.

Google 2.0 is not a friend of publishers, content creators, or the open web. With its focus on AI and keeping everyone inside Google, alternative search companies are calling BS. And DuckDuckGo has ...

Companies like OpenAI and Perplexity promised in the past that the AI search engines their models offer would provide new sources of income for publishers by ...

AI-powered search engine Perplexity says it's building its own web browser. It'll be called Comet, and it's set to arrive 'soon.' ...

Even when chatbots are provided direct quotes from real stories and asked for more information, they will often lie.

Well, the search giant has quietly introduced a new web filter that brings the nostalgic feel of its early search engine days to life. This news seems to have slipped under the radar, after the ...

You.com is one potential dark horse in the contest to take on Google as the dominant search engine.

Perplexity AI is an AI-driven search engine and chatbot that uses large language models (LLMs) to answer user queries by drawing information from the web and providing cited sources within its ...

Artificial intelligence turns static search engines into thought-shaping forces that subtly guide how we think, but who’s in ...

As has been the case since last May, the AI-generated overviews will be placed above the traditional web links that have become the lifeblood of online publishers dependent on traffic referrals from ...