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TL;DR Google has been battling an ongoing antitrust case after a judge ruled last year that it illegally maintained its monopoly in online search. In a new filing, the Justice Department reaffirmed its demand that Google must sell Chrome and stop paying companies to make Google Search the default option. The final decision on how Google must change will be made in April when the judge reviews ...

In a sign that President Trump is following the Biden administration’s lead in reining in Google, the Justice Department on Friday reiterated its demand that a court break up the search giant. The request followed a landmark ruling last year by Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that found Google had illegally maintained a monopoly in online search by pa...

TikTok’s global advertising revenue is projected to reach $32.4bn this year, representing 24.5% year-over-year growth, even as the platform faces potential shutdown in its largest market according research done by WARC media. By the numbers (according to WARC Media): Global TikTok ad revenue is forecasted to hit $32.4 billion in 2025, marking a 24.5% YoY increase. The US remains its largest ma...

Whoop-de-doo. Getty / Futurism Put on your sturdiest boots, because the decades-long part of our internet journey over dry land is over. Now it’s time to knuckle down and trudge through an endless bog of AI slop. That’s because Google, our tech overlords whose search engine is basically the connective tissue of the entire surface web, has announced that it’s going to expand its infamously terr...

Bad press be damned, Google is reportedly committing even harder to its AI-powered search aspirations, announcing improvements to its AI Overview system and testing a new AI Mode in search. Google’s initial foray into AI-powered search didn’t exactly go as planned. When the popular search engine initially launched AI Overviews, users received some troubling answers to their queries, from health...

Microsoft is bringing more transparency to its search advertising with a new feature that explains ad placement decisions directly in Bing results. Details: The feature appears as a dropdown option next to ad URLs in Bing search results Currently shows varying levels of detail depending on the user or region How it works. When users click the dropdown arrow next to a search ad’s URL, they can...

A new study reveals major problems with how AI search engines handle news citations, even when they have formal agreements with publishers. While nearly 25% of Americans now use AI search engines instead of traditional tools, according to recent data, these systems often fail at basic source attribution. Research from Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism tested eight AI searc...

After months of beta testing, DuckDuckGo’s AI integrations are going live for everyone and getting some upgrades at the same time: They’re free to use (with certain limits), and stay in line with DuckDuckGo’s commitment to user privacy (you don’t have to create an account to use them, and your searches aren’t tracked). As with Google, Bing, ChatGPT, and others, you can now get AI answers to you...

Six Reasons Bing Ads Should Be Part of Your Hotel Marketing Strategy – Image Credit TravelBoom Marketing Sure, we all know Google dominates the search market. According to data from HubSpot, the search engine giant fields 6 in 10 U.S. search queries (which is obviously a lot). But that still leaves another 40% of online searches up for grabs, and today, we’ll discuss the leading way to snag you...

Google released its much anticipated AI Mode, which is in beta now, but it super cool. Google AI Overviews are now powered by Gemini 2.0. Google had more search ranking volatility this week. Google said they answered over 5 trillion searches per year. Google said 10% of younger searchers start with Circle to Search. Sparktoro report shows a lot of searchers don’t search all that much. I posted ...