Google wasn’t around for the advent of the World Wide Web, but it successfully remade the web on its own terms. Today, any website that wants to be findable has to play by Google’s rules, and after ...

Artificial intelligence chatbots are shaking up the way we use the internet, altering the search-for-clicks bargain that has shaped the landscape of the web for decades. Companies are scrambling to ...

This year’s conference included another change to search, this one more profound but less aggressively deployed. “AI Mode,” which has similarly been in beta testing for a while, will appear as an ...

For the last two decades, Google has brought people a list of algorithmically selected links from the web for any given search query. At I/O 2025, Google made clear that the concept of Search is ...

Perplexity on Wednesday launched its first AI-powered web browser, called Comet, marking the startup’s latest effort to challenge Google Search as the primary avenue people use to find information ...

AI Mode excels at tasks like product research for online shopping. But it falls short on basic web searches. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer and the ...

Google has mostly shied away from making its own native desktop apps — even going so far as to require users to continue loading up a web browser to use tools like ...

I never liked the AI Overviews that populate Google Search results, but Google Search just added a few AI features that I'd actually enjoy. The Simplify tool works only in the Google app, using AI to ...

A federal judge’s remedy stops short of making meaningful changes to how we use our phones, computers and the web. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer and the ...

Around the beginning of last year, Matthew Prince started receiving worried calls from the bosses of big media companies. They told Mr Prince, whose firm, Cloudflare, provides security infrastructure ...