A former Google Search engineer launched Athena to help brands appear in AI-generated answers. Profound raised $20 million to monitor how chatbots relay brand information across platforms. Marketers ...

If you find yourself scrolling past AI summaries just to find the "real" results, DuckDuckGo's new AI-free portal was built ...

In the era of search wars fought between giants, it’s tough to be small. Berlin-based Ecosia offers a search engine for the climate-conscious, promising to be carbon-negative by investing all of its ...

A software engineer from New York got so fed up with the irrelevant results and SEO spam in search engines that he decided to create a better one. Two months later, he has a demo search engine up and ...

As search engine incumbents — namely Google — amp up their platforms with GenAI tech, startups are looking to reinvent AI-powered search from the ground up. It might seem like a Sisyphean task, going ...

Google signals search’s next phase: small multimodal models on devices infer intent from behavior before a query is ever ...

The recent court ruling forcing Google to relinquish its lucrative deal as Apple's default search engine has ignited speculation about the tech giant's next move. This question alerted people to think ...

Qwant, France’s privacy-focused search engine, and Ecosia, a Berlin-based not-for-profit search engine that uses ad revenue to fund tree planting and other climate-focused initiatives, are joining ...

Search engine crawlers (also called bots) comb through all the content they can find on the internet. They do so by following internal links within websites and links across different websites. The ...