Google is significantly restricting its free search index. Developers will have to switch to paid enterprise services by January 2027. Google has announced that it will discontinue free access to its ...

Google updated its JavaScript SEO best practices document, for the second time this week, this time to clarify canonicalization best practices for JavaScript. In short, Google said “setting the ...

dtSearch has released version 2025.02 of its enterprise and developer product line, expanding platform coverage and strengthening support for modern data formats used in large-scale applications. The ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I don't know about you, but I'm tired of seeing AI used in place of actual search results in my web browser or used to summarize whatever I'm ...

Since last year’s disastrous rollout of Google’s AI Overviews, the world at large has been aware of how AI-powered search results can differ wildly from the traditional list of links search engines ...

Google announced that Gemini AI for Chrome will be widely available to U.S. users. The new Gemini for Chrome includes new features that act as a browsing assistant. The browser is a key part of the ...

Google is apparently having trouble identifying paywalled content due to a standard way paywalled content is handled by publishers like news sites. It’s asking that publishers with paywalled content ...

Google has added new guidance to the "Fix Search-related JavaScript problems" help document, specifically addressing JavaScript-based paywalls. This is currently listed as number 10 here, and says: If ...

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Google's search was once so ubiquitous that the verb "to google" is now synonymous with "look it up." Yet it's now more than ever that Google's hegemony is in question. Studies have suggested that ...