Are you worried about online privacy? Not a fan of anticompetitive practices? Maybe you just want a new take on web search?

That's where this independent search engine comes in, and makes it so rare in 2025. Mojeek crawls and runs its own search index, doesn't track you for advertising, and offers a rare sliver of peaceful ...

Google cofounder Larry Page had a vision for search engines 25 years ago that sounds eerily close to what its AI product Gemini is making possible today.

Eight years ago, a friend and I drove from Buffalo to Los Angeles in a 14-year-old Audi station wagon we nicknamed Gerhardt. It was an imperfect car: The brakes didn’t work until the day before we ...

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 ...

OpenAI has a strategic lead by making publisher agreements and releasing SearchGPT to a small group of users.

Nearly 30 years ago, when Google launched the search engine that started its long march to dominance, its founders started without much hardware. Known at first as Backrub and operated on the Stanford ...

The rise of AI assistants, or answer engines, establishes a new standard: AI visibility. This is your brand's ability to be ...

After making the decision to ditch Google Search a few months ago, I’ve been making it a point to keep an eye out for new products to try. Amusingly, it took me quite a while to realize there are ...

AI search engines prefer clear E-E-A-T signals: A team with real faces, defined roles, education, certifications and ...

Like the compass, light bulb and other once-revolutionary tools, the search engine has taken its place in the barely noticeable background of contemporary life. Using Google Search might invite as ...