Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and ...

The tool puts OpenAI squarely in competition with the search giants and will help fuel its next generation of AI agents ChatGPT can now search the web for up-to-date answers to a user’s queries, ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. I remember 1996 like it was yesterday. Banner ads were booming, and AltaVista was the ...

The tug-of-war over the internet’s future escalated dramatically on Tuesday after OpenAI unveiled a new product that takes direct aim at the heart of Google’s core business: controlling the world’s ...

Developers should act before governments fall back on blunt tools. In late October, News Corp filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI, a popular AI search engine. At first glance, this might seem ...

Rolling out starting today, Google Search results will now directly link to The Internet Archive to add historical context for the links in your results. Google Search makes it easy to find ...

OpenAI is updating ChatGPT search, its web search tool in ChatGPT, to give users an improved online shopping experience, the company announced Monday. When ChatGPT users search for products, the ...

Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and utilities category, with a focus on energy-saving advice, thermostats, and heating and cooling. Jon has more than a decade ...

In context: AI and zero-click searches are killing the business model of the web that has sustained content creators for the last 15+ years. It's an opinion that is shared by many, including ...

A massive Microsoft outage affects Bing.com, Copilot for web and mobile, Copilot in Windows, ChatGPT internet search and DuckDuckGo. Microsoft outage started at approximately 3 AM EDT and seems to ...

Two years ago, a Canadian writer named Cory Doctorow coined the phrase “enshittification” to describe the decay of online platforms. The word immediately set the Internet ablaze, as it captured the ...