CNET

DuckDuckGo Subscription: A User-Friendly Privacy Boost, but Not for Power Users

The DuckDuckGo subscription is a privacy suite that includes a VPN, personal information removal, identity theft restoration services and now AI chatbot support, giving you no-frills privacy ...
Rochester Business Journal

What drives the quality of internet searches – better algorithms or access to more data?

Does the superior quality of search results from dominant firms like Google stem primarily from better algorithms or from access to larger volumes of user-generated data?

In a major antitrust ruling, a judge lets Google keep Chrome but levies other penalties

A federal judge ruled against breaking up Google, but is barring it from making exclusive deals to make its search engine the ...
Daily Mail

Google is barred from exclusive search engine contracts but does not have to break up, judge rules in monopoly case

Google must share data with rivals to open up competition in online search, a judge in Washington ruled on Tuesday. However, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta rejected a demand from Donald Trump's ...
The Verge

Google critics think the search remedies ruling is a total whiff

‘Google will still be allowed to continue to use its monopoly to hold back competitors, including in AI search,’ said DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg. ‘Google will still be allowed to continue to use ...
The Boston Globe

Judge orders search shakeup in Google monopoly case, but keeps hands off Chrome and default deals

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a shake-up of Google’s search engine in an attempt to curb the corrosive power of an illegal monopoly while rebuffing the US government’s attempt to ...
The Verge

Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in search antitrust case

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content ...
MUO on MSN

This browser convinced me to finally quit Firefox

Firefox was an easy alternative. It represented freedom and was built for privacy. But then the years passed, and I lost trust in Firefox and stopped using it. That said, I didn't just wake up one ...

Stop struggling with Windows Search — try these 6 game‑changing alternatives

Tired of slow Windows 11 search? Discover six powerful tools that replace it with speed, custom triggers, AI features, and full control.
TechRadar

Long before Google took the world by storm, this search engine paved the way for everyone

Search engines are a core component of the modern web, serving up the entirety of recorded human knowledge at the click of a button. Naturally, Google is synonymous with this aspect of the web, but it ...
ZDNet

Apple's AI search engine could be driven by Google and help revive Siri, report says

Apple plans to launch an AI search engine, reportedly. The AI search experience would power the Siri voice assistant. The expected launch is in the spring as part of the Siri overhaul. Though Apple ...
MarketingProfs

Are AI Tools Replacing Traditional Search Engines?

Artificial Intelligence - Although the use of AI-powered tools like ChatGPT has been growing rapidly in the US, that does not ...