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As of May 2026, ChatGPT led standalone AI chatbot traffic with 79.05 percent global share, while Google still controlled 90.39 percent of the global search-engine market, making the AI search war a split contest rather than a clean handoff from one winner to another. The scoreboard says OpenAI...

Google said on June 6, 2026, that a Chrome Canary setting routing normal address-bar searches into Google Search’s AI Mode appeared by mistake, after reports suggested the company was testing a path to make AI Mode the default search destination in Chrome. The denial matters because the...

Google has pushed Gemini more aggressively onto Windows desktops with a new desktop app that turns Search into a system-wide launcher, an AI answer engine, and a screen-aware assistant all at once. The headline feature is the Alt + Space shortcut, which lets users search the web, local files...

Google’s desktop search app for Windows is no longer a small Labs curiosity. It is now a globally available English-language release that puts a Spotlight-style launcher on top of Windows 10 and newer PCs, with Alt + Space as the core shortcut and a bundle of search, AI, Drive, and Lens features...

Google Search is entering a new phase, and Sundar Pichai’s “agent manager” framing captures just how far that evolution could go. Rather than acting only as a system for retrieving answers, Search is being positioned as a coordination layer that can help users complete multi-step tasks over...