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Microsoft is now showing why it selects or chooses to show a specific ad directly in the Bing search results. When you click on the arrow down by the URL of the search ad snippet, you will get window dialog that may explain why the ad was shown. When I try it, Bing shows me “Learn how your ads are chosen” but doesn’t show me any more details but when Khushal Bherwani shows it, it gives the full...

Hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton Produced by Whitney Jones and Rachel Cohn Edited by Rachel Dry Engineered by Chris Wood Original music by Dan PowellSophia Lanman and Diane Wong This week, Google introduced a new way to search, which could mean that Googling as we know it is on the way out. It’s called AI Mode and it is essentially the company’s response to the growing number of people tu...

While to some, the word DuckDuckGo sounds like a children’s game, those who know the search engine are fans of its privacy-first approach to web browsing. The Google alternative has applied this same philosophy to its new AI features, including AI summaries and an AI chatbot. DuckDuckGo Is Introducing Less Intrusive AI Tools to Its Search Engine Known for protecting users from personal data c...

DuckDuckGo, US-based privacy-focused search engine, has announced that its AI-generated answers and chatbot have exited beta testing. The AI responses, first launched in 2023 under the name DuckAssist, now gather information from various online sources instead of exclusively from Wikipedia. These AI-generated answers will display for select queries in DuckDuckGo’s search results and are intende...

Join the club Thousands of top tech executives, journalists, academics and civil society workers read our reporting on — and analysis of — the day’s biggest events at the intersection of technology and democracy. This is a column about AI. My boyfriend works at Anthropic. See my full ethics disclosure here. Just under a year ago, at its annual developer conference, Google signaled that a drama...

Imagine a world where your search engine doesn’t just list results but actually understands your complex questions, reasons through them, and delivers precise answers. That’s exactly what Google is working towards with its latest AI-powered updates to Search. Buckle up, because AI Overviews just got a major upgrade, and a brand-new AI Mode is coming into play! The tech giant announced these upd...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Google said its new AI search features can use advanced reasoning to answer search queries with structured, actionable responses that curate text and images from multiple sources. The approach would mark a notable shift away from the familiar search engin...

It was inevitable, really, but now it’s official: Google is testing a new all-AI web search mode that leaves users entirely beholden to what Gemini thinks they’ll want. The Chrome giant announced Wednesday a new experimental “AI Mode” that, in essence, is a supercharged version of the AI Overviews slapped on the top of nearly every search result page today. Unlike Overviews, however, AI Mode tu...

It appears that Google is unmoved by recent allegations that its AI Overview feature has negatively impacted web publishers’ traffic. In a recent update, Google announced that its AI overview feature will now be powered by Gemini 2.0. Google has introduced its new, “future-looking” AI search mode, which is meant to help users find answers to queries that need more “exploration, comparison and r...

Header Image Source: YouTube If there’s one thing that’s been useful about the terrifying fascist ascendancy following the American presidential election (we really need to look for silver linings at times like this), it’s been the unmasking of the technofeudalist elite and a full reveal of their motivations. The image of the heads of Facebook, Amazon, and Google all lining up to kiss the ring ...