Notices tagged with search, page 2

"What a great time to be #Google. Not only is it facing only the meekest of punishments for abusing its #monopoly of the #search market, it is actually now positioned to further entrench its dominance of our information landscape.

This is a perilous moment to be granting one company this much control over global #accesstoknowledge."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/opinion/google-judge-mehta-remedy-monopoly.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pE8.XB0L.ydY_4VecQ_MD&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Beyond just being an inconvenience and visibly degrading the quality and reliability of search results, ads also pose serious security risks.

That's why Kagi is and will always be free of ads.

#Kagi #Search #NoAds #AdFree

https://start.duckduckgo.com/lite

It’s even better than the original early 2000s-era Google front page, they don’t even have the “I’m feeling lucky” feature. It is precisely three elements: company name, query input field, search button.

#tech #Internet #WebApps #smolweb #IndieWeb #DuckDuckGo #SearchEngine #Search #OnlineSearch

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Is Google speaking out of both sides of its mouth? In May, CEO Sundar Pichai said that web publishing is not dying and VP of search Nick Fox said that the web is thriving, but in a court document filed by Google on Friday, lawyers wrote "the open web is already in rapid decline." What gives? For Search Engine Round Table, Barry Schwartz looks into what's going on.

https://flip.it/0__SR4

#Technology #Tech #Google #Search #SEO #Web

Neat review of Kagi on a beautiful blog:

https://tam--lin.tumblr.com/post/792801385787817984/like-many-people-ive-been-deeply-peeved-by-the

#Kagi #Search

... the funny thing is, I know enough about how the search core is built to make an educated guess at how this happened.

Search core farms the query out to (possibly dozens of) completely independent software engines to answer the query. Those engines have their own backing datastores and they don't synchronize to each other; it's necessary they don't to make search fast. So it's entirely possible that the Top Stories core is pulling data that is more recent while the AI Overview core has built its information off of an older search result cache (and possibly hot-cached this answer before the NYT confirmed the death when the news broke locally / on social media). Google, as an institution, leans on the tradeoff "eventual consistency is good enough," so this kind of bug is seen as a predictable side-effect of the chosen tradeoffs.

Does that make us feel better?

No, nor should it. Get your shit together, Google.

#Google #search #AI #fail

I started testing @kagihq paid search, signed up for the Starter plan 4 days ago.

Already used almost a third of my queries, so might switch to Unlimited.

Anyone else tried paid search? The idea is cool: features like Lens, fine-tuned settings, and other perks! But still in doubts.

If you’ve got experience with paid search, share your thoughts!

Curious if it’s worth it or if there are any catches.

#privacy #search #kagi #duckduckgo #tracking #adfree

"When Google unveiled AI Overviews last year, online publishers worried that the AI-generated blurbs in the top spot of search results would spark precipitous declines in traffic and gut the business model of vast reaches of the web.

Now, there is growing evidence validating those fears.

New research shows the web traffic that publishers have long relied on is significantly slowing, thanks to AI-generated summaries and the rise of AI chatbots.

Traffic to CNN's website has dropped about 30% from a year ago. Business Insider's and HuffPost's sites saw traffic plunges around 40% in the same period, according to figures from digital market data firm Similarweb.

While many factors influence traffic fluctuations, publishers say the introduction of Google's AI Overviews in May 2024 has packed a punch.

Helen Havlak, the publisher of The Verge, a tech news site and Vox Media's most visited homepage, said when people see AI summaries, they visit sites for information less often."

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/31/nx-s1-5484118/google-ai-overview-online-publishers

#Google #AI #GenerativeAI #AIOverviews #Search #SearchEngines #OpenWeb

"Consider AI Overviews, the algorithm-generated blurbs that often now appear front and centre when users ask questions. Fears that these would reduce the value of search-adjacent ads haven’t come to pass. On the contrary, Google says AI Overviews are driving 10 per cent more queries in searches where they appear and haven’t dented revenue. Paid clicks were up 4 per cent year on year, the company said in a call with analysts on Wednesday.

But as AI yields more, it costs more. Google’s capital expenditure on data centres and such trappings this year will now be about $85bn, versus its prior estimate of $75bn. That’s almost quadruple what the company spent in 2020, when AI was a glimmer in Silicon Valley’s eye. It’s also 22 per cent of the company’s expected revenue this year, according to LSEG, the highest annual level since 2006."

https://www.ft.com/content/7589393d-e562-46b7-9c43-5ffaf195e8d6

#Google #BIgTech #SiliconValley #AI #GenerativeAI #AIOverview #Search #SearchEngines

"A Pew Research Center report published this spring analyzed data from 900 U.S. adults who agreed to share their online browsing activity. About six-in-ten respondents (58%) conducted at least one Google search in March 2025 that produced an AI-generated summary. Additional analysis found that Google users were less likely to click on result links when visiting search pages with an AI summary compared with those without one. For searches that resulted in an AI-generated summary, users very rarely clicked on the sources cited.

Here’s more of what we learned about Google AI summaries and how users interact with them.

Google users who encounter an AI summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than users who do not see one. Users who encountered an AI summary clicked on a traditional search result link in 8% of all visits. Those who did not encounter an AI summary clicked on a search result nearly twice as often (15% of visits).

A bar chart showing that Google users are less likely to click on a link when they encounter search pages with AI summaries.
Google users who encountered an AI summary also rarely clicked on a link in the summary itself. This occurred in just 1% of all visits to pages with such a summary.

Google users are more likely to end their browsing session entirely after visiting a search page with an AI summary than on pages without a summary. This happened on 26% of pages with an AI summary, compared with 16% of pages with only traditional search results."

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/07/22/google-users-are-less-likely-to-click-on-links-when-an-ai-summary-appears-in-the-results/

#AI #GenerativeAI #Google #AIOverview #OpenWeb #Search #SearchEngines

Kagi's algorithms prioritize organic, non-commercial sources over ad-heavy or tracker-riddled sites. This really helps to surface unique, human-generated content from smaller blogs, authentic sites and forums.

#Kagi #Search #NoAds #SmallWeb #IndieWeb

A reminder the RFF directory of artists lives on and continues to grow at https://indieart.support/

It is the biggest consented list of fedi present artists around. Discover music, writing, spoken, and visual artists and THEIR preferred support links.

While original scope was heavily music and fedi, that is expanding more and more.

Message @hello or e-mail to be added. It's not automated as #community care is taken to not platform those who punch down.

#music #art #writing #search #directory

#OpenAI trying to get rid of the middle man between your #search data and #AI training needs. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/openai-release-web-browser-challenge-google-chrome-2025-07-09/

Google is wholeheartedly embracing AI technology and its new tool could rejuvenate the internet or bring about the apocalypse for websites.

@tomgermain goes into detail in this BBC Future long read:
https://flip.it/KQXC3E

#Google #AI #Internet #Web #SEO #Search #Tech

With the Kagi for Libraries program, we'll offer free access to Kagi for public library patrons worldwide 📚

If your library is interested or you know a local public library that could benefit, encourage them to apply and help us expand this program:

https://kagi.com/libraries

#Kagi #Search #Libraries

Kagi turns 3!

To our amazing community: thank you for your trust and support. Here's to many more years of building a web that works for you, not advertisers.

Read more about our journey to date and what’s to come:
https://blog.kagi.com/first-three-years

#Kagi #Search #NoAds

Uh oh

The Verge: Microsoft shuts off Bing Search APIs and recommends switching to AI

"Microsoft is shutting off access to its Bing Search results for third-party developers. The software maker quietly announced the change earlier this week, noting that Bing Search APIs will be retired on August 11th and that “any existing instances of Bing Search APIs will be decommissioned completely, and the product will no longer be available for usage or new customer signup.”

... Wired reports that some big customers of Bing’s APIs will retain access to the service after the August 11th cutoff. DuckDuckGo uses Bing to power its search engine, and it has confirmed that it will still have access. Other smaller developers won’t be so lucky, though."

https://www.theverge.com/news/667517/microsoft-bing-search-api-end-of-support-ai-replacement

#ai #aipocalypse #search

PeerTube results now show up in regular searches on Kagi, plus you can filter videos by "source" to see more PeerTube content.

#Fediverse #PeerTube #Kagi #Search

In a first, the Japan Fair Trade Commission has issued a cease-and-desist order against Google, accusing it of violating the country's anti-monopoly law by forcing manufacturers to preinstall its apps in smartphones. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/15/companies/google-anti-monopoly-law/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #google #phones #bigtech #search #ftc #tech #apps

Weiß eins hier, wie die Adelheid-Steinmann-Straße in der Heidelberger Südstadt früher hieß, als hier noch das NATO-Hauptquartier war?

Does anyone here know the former name of the street "Adelheid-Steinmann-Str." in Heidelberg Suedstadt district? Before 2015 it was the home of the NATO headquarter.

https://rhein-neckar-wiki.de/Adelheid-Steinmann-Stra%C3%9Fe_(Heidelberg)

https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=49.385295&mlon=8.683282#map=19/49.385295/8.683282

#hilfe #plboost #boost #heidelberg #history #nato #headquarter #street #streetname #help #hilfe #suche #search #Konversion