Back in the Windows XP days, when the only search functionality was a cartoon dog in the sidebar of Windows Explorer (not a joke), Google released Google Desktop. If you installed the application, you ...

To help solve this, Google released the File Search Tool on the Gemini API, a fully managed RAG system “that abstracts away the retrieval pipeline.” File Search removes much of the tool and ...

Despite predictions that ChatGPT would kill Google, new data shows Google maintains a 95% market share while AI tools account for just 1.3% of browsing activity. The real disruption isn’t AI replacing ...

Outside of Chrome, Drive, and Quick Share, Google rarely makes native desktop apps with everything usually being based in the browser. That’s changing today with a new experimental “Google app for ...

Is Google about to change online search forever by replacing its classic web search with AI Mode? Credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Move over, Google Search. AI Mode is here, and it isn't ...

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Google Search head Liz Reid says traffic remains ‘relatively stable’ despite the popularity of AI Overviews. Google Search head Liz Reid says traffic remains ‘relatively stable’ despite the popularity ...

I’m out on camp shirts. I wish that weren’t so, but I believe in data—and the data says I haven’t worn a single one in 2025, despite some truly hot, sweaty, camp collar shirt weather. It’s not that I ...

Faced with mounting backlash, OpenAI removed a controversial ChatGPT feature that caused some users to unintentionally allow their private—and highly personal—chats to appear in search results. Fast ...

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has withdrawn itself from spending on Google Shopping (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) advertisements, according to a report by Digiday on Wednesday, citing multiple research ...

Google’s AI Mode is getting a host of new features on mobile and desktop. AI Mode on mobile gets a live video search option, which is accessible through Google Lens. On desktop, AI Mode gets file ...

AI upstarts were supposed to lay siege to Google’s search-engine dominance. So far, the defense is winning. Google’s ubiquitous search tool has proven surprisingly resilient to competition from the ...