Google Search
Google confirms AI search will have ads, but they may look different
Google Ads are not going anywhere. Eventually, AI Search results on Google and likely other properties will have ads. Google recently reported $56.57 billion in revenue from ads on Search and YouTube. You obviously can’t expect ads to disappear from its search business. Right now, Google has two AI features. The first is AI Overviews, which appears at […]
Google says Search AI Mode will know everything about you
Google wants ‘AI mode’ on Search to be as personal as possible, and it’ll soon tap into services like Gmail or Drive to know more about you. Google believes the future of search is going to be more personal than ever, largely due to the increase in large language models usage. As spotted by Gagan Ghotra on […]
ChatGPT Search is now smarter as OpenAI takes on Google Search
OpenAI has rolled out a big update to ChatGPT Search, which is an AI-powered search feature, similar to Google AI Mode. After a recent update, ChatGPT Search is more accurate and reliable. You’ll also notice that it’s more useful than before because it accurately summarises the links, and allows you to follow back. OpenAI says […]
Google begins unifying search country domains to Google.com
Google has announced that it’s retiring separate country code top-level domain names for search, like google.co.uk or google.com.br, and unifying them under Google.com. Previously, Google used to have separate country-code domains (like google.ng or google.com.br) so people could get results that were more relevant to their local area. Over time, however, Google improved how it figures out […]
Hackers use Google Search ads to steal Google Ads accounts
Ironically, cybercriminals now use Google search advertisements to promote phishing sites that steal advertisers’ credentials for the Google Ads platform. The attackers are running ads on Google Search impersonating Google Ads, showing as sponsored results that redirect potential victims to fake login pages hosted on Google Sites but looking like the official Google Ads homepage, […]
Microsoft Bing shows misleading Google-like page for ‘Google’ searches
Microsoft Bing displays what is being categorized as a misleading Google-esque search page when users search for ‘Google,’ making it look like you are on the competing search engine. When performing searches on Microsoft Bing, users are shown a standard search page consisting of a search field with your search term at the top, followed […]
Google’s mysterious ‘search.app’ links leave Android users concerned
Google has left Android users puzzled after the most recent update to the Google mobile app causes links shared from the app to now be prepended with a mysterious “search.app” domain. As the Google app is a popular portal for searching the web for Android users and delivers a personalized content news feed referred to […]