Google Maps launches Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational feature for local discovery in the U.S. and India, plus a navigation overhaul in the U.S.

Google's Gary Illyes offers a candid overview of Googlebot, explaining there are hundreds of crawlers that aren't publicly ...

This week, we continue to see ongoing heated Google Search volatility. I posted the big Google webmaster report for March ...

By Leo Marchandon March 11 - French media group Canal+ on Wednesday unveiled multi-year agreements with Alphabet's Google ...

Generative engine optimization (GEO) represents a shift from optimizing for keyword-based ranking systems to optimizing for how generative search engines interpret and assemble information. While the ...

Google, the target for billions of euros in European Union antitrust fines, has been hit by a fresh EU probe over concerns it’s illegally rigging the cost of advertising on its search engine. The ...

Google today announced an early preview of WebMCP, a new protocol that defines how AI agents interact with websites. WebMCP lets developers tell large language models exactly what each button or link ...

Google is simplifying the process for taking nonconsensual explicit images out of results, too. Google is simplifying the process for taking nonconsensual explicit images out of results, too. is a ...

This is the online edition of The Wiretap newsletter, your weekly digest of cybersecurity, internet privacy and surveillance news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here. Jeffrey Epstein poses for a ...

As part of Safer Internet Day, Google Search is rolling out a pair of updates to Results about you and the non-consensual explicit images removal tool. Results about you can already remove Search ...

Google Search can make information easy to find, but it can also make your personal data surface in ways that feel invasive or even dangerous. This is why Google is rolling out new tools that give ...

Question: Why is Google Photos AI search so bad and can I turn it off? Answer: If searching your photos — and especially your videos — feels worse than it used to, you’re not imagining it. Many users ...