Google Paid How Much to Be the Default Search Engine?
Google’s antitrust trial revealed the multi-billion dollar tech company paid out a whopping total of $26.3 billion in 2021 to keep its status as the default search engine on phones…
All That Could Have Been: Apple Considered Buying Bing From Microsoft
Image: Koshiro K (Shutterstock) As Google faces a massive antitrust lawsuit, revelations surrounding the case have presented us with a glimpse into an alternate reality. Microsoft reportedly discussed selling Bing…
Google Quietly Removes ‘Written By People’ From Suggestions for Website Owners
Illustration: Moor Studio / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock) Google quietly removed the suggestion that the text of a website should be “written by people” from its guidance for site owners who want…
Google’s Trials Will Reshape the Internet Whether It Wins or Loses
Tuesday saw the opening of a major antitrust case against Google, marking the government’s first big tech monopoly trial since Microsoft. As the Department of Justice and Google lay out…
‘Benefits of Slavery:’ Google’s AI Search Gives Ridiculous and Wrong Answers
Google’s experiments with AI-generated search results produce some troubling answers, Gizmodo has learned, including justifications for slavery and genocide and the positive effects of banning books. In one instance, Google…
11 Cool Tricks You Can Do With the Google Search Box
Getting Google to search the web for you is all well and good, but there’s a ton of functionality available through the simple-looking box on the world’s most-visited website. You…
Google Updates Search AI to Summarize and Categorize Articles
Google’s Search AI is getting much more definition-heavy. The latest update to the Search Generative Experience will feature AI summaries of long articles. Search will also categorize the articles for…
Google Booed by Employees at Planned Drag Show Event
Google employees booed the company at its second annual drag show following the company’s decision to reverse its support for the event. Google withdrew its support of the planned drag…