People turn to the internet to run billions of search queries each year. These range from keeping tabs on world events and celebrities to learning new words and getting DIY help. One of the most ...

Google explains how its search engine crawls the web in latest "How Search Works" video. Google released a new "How Search Works" video on crawling. Googlebot discovers new web pages by following ...

As anyone who uses the internet will know, the way we find information has fundamentally changed. For the last three decades, search engines have delivered ranked lists of links in response to our ...

The internet search engine of the future will be powered by artificial intelligence. One can already choose from a host of AI-powered or AI-enhanced search engines—though their reliability often still ...

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the practice of designing your web pages so that your website ranks higher on search ...

Google rushed out fixes after its AI search feature made errors that went viral. Fundamental limitations of generative AI mean that it will still screw up sometimes. Google’s AI Overviews feature ...

Safiya Umoja Noble swears she is not a Luddite. But she does think we could all learn a thing or two from the machine-bashing textile craftsmen in 19th-century Britain whose name is now synonymous ...

Once email became a part of the average office worker's day-to-day professional work life, a bit of conventional wisdom soon emerged: Your employer can read your work emails, so don't put anything ...

It’s amazing, and a little sad, to think that something created in 1989 that changed how people used and viewed the then-nascent Internet had nearly vanished by 2024. Nearly, that is, because the ...

T.J. Thomson receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is an affiliate with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making & Society. Ashwin Nagappa receives funding ...