Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

You can make Google your homepage in every major web browser by opening the Settings or Preferences menu.

I’ve been trying to disentangle my online life from Google for a while. And as someone who wrote about Android professionally for years, it hasn’t been easy. I’ve ditched Chrome, but I still use a ...

You can change your default search engine in Google Chrome by heading to your Settings menu on desktop or mobile.

When the U.S. Department of Justice originally brought — and then won — its case against Google, arguing that the tech behemoth monopolized the search engine market, the focus was on, well … search.

It reached its highest point, according to StatCounter, in May 2023, with a 93.11% share of the market. Things have changed. Today, Google Search still dominates, but its global search market share ...

When discussing the Android browser wars, the conversation usually revolves around Google Chrome’s dominance and popular ...

It seems Google is adding an AI Mode button to the Google home page. Google has been testing this for a couple months now. Google may be rolling out the AI Mode button on the Google home page, on the ...

Google AI Mode, which officially launched in May 2025 and is now available to all U.S. users without a waitlist, represents a significant step forward in how we engage with search. Powered by Gemini 2 ...

ZDNET key takeaways If you want to abandon Google, you can install your own search engine.YaCy is a free, decentralized search engine that can be installed locally.YaCy can be installed on Linux, ...

I have nothing but respect for the de-Google movement and everyone involved in it. With Mountain View’s influence over our household technology ever strengthening, it’s quite understandable that some ...