Search Engine
Google deletes X post after getting caught using a ‘stolen’ AI recipe infographic
Google is facing backlash on X after a viral post for its NotebookLM appeared to use a food blogger’s work without credit. Recently, Google launched Nano Banana Pro, its most powerful image model to date. The model is likely trained on millions of websites and videos, which explains why it’s one of the best tools for […]
Brave browser surpasses the 100 million active monthly users mark
Brave browser reached 101 million monthly active users and 42 million daily active users this September, marking a new record in the project’s history. At the same time, Brave Search, the project’s privacy-focused search engine that launched in 2021 and relies on its own web index, has grown to 1.6 billion monthly search queries and […]
Google to make it easier to access AI Mode as default
Google plans to make it easier for users to access AI mode by allowing them to set it as the default, replacing the traditional blue links. AI mode is an advanced version of Google Search that uses large language models to summarise information from the web, so you can spend more time on Google than […]
Google claims users find ads in AI search ‘helpful’
Google AI mode and AI Overviews now have ads, which, according to the search engine giant, are “helpful.” At the Google Marketing Live event last week, Google confirmed it has started rolling out ads to AI mode and AI Overviews in the US, which create new “opportunities for customers.” While I haven’t seen ads in AI […]
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 […]
Brave Search now lets users ‘Rerank’ results from favorite sites
Brave Search has introduced a new feature called Rerank, which allows users to define search results ordering preferences and set specific sites rank higher. Brave Search is a privacy-focused search tool created by Brave Software, which uses its own web index to generate search results. It is marketed as a privacy-first alternative to Google or Bing search […]