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Google’s AI search strategy is not shrinking its core search business; it is expanding the number and type of questions people ask, while creating a much tougher economic equation for the websites that supply the underlying information. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai used the company’s...

Google and DuckDuckGo now represent two sharply different visions of what a search engine should be in 2026: Google is becoming an increasingly capable AI-powered answer, discovery, shopping, and local-services platform, while DuckDuckGo is positioning privacy, user control, and optional AI as...

Google’s most consequential Search redesign in a quarter-century is not really about making the search box larger. It is about turning the internet’s most valuable entry point into an AI workspace that can interpret long questions, inspect images and videos, analyze files, draw context from...

Google Search’s AI Overview and AI Mode have been rated “Unacceptable” for children after tests found failures involving self-harm signals, substance use, factual accuracy, source quality, and homework completion. The findings matter directly to school IT because both features are built into the...

Google is rolling out a new Search Services History setting that can save images, files, audio, and video submitted to Google’s Search products and use that material to improve generative AI models. The change is not a blanket update allowing Google to train directly on every photo in a user’s...

The Court of Justice of the European Union on July 2, 2026, dismissed Google and Alphabet’s final appeal in Luxembourg and confirmed a roughly €4.1 billion antitrust fine over Android agreements that tied manufacturers’ access to Google’s mobile ecosystem to Search, Chrome, and Play Store...

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...