Forget Google - my new go-to search tool won't track you or push AI, and it's free

YaCy is a free, decentralized search engine that can be installed locally. When you run a search via google.com, that search not only goes through the Google servers, but it also places AI answers ...
XDA Developers on MSN

Self-host your own search engine with YaCy and Docker

I found the benefits of self-hosting a decentralized search engine using YaCy, an open-source platform that prioritizes ...

Perplexity launches Comet AI browser for everyone: How to try it

Perplexity has officially launched its Comet AI web browser to everyone for free. At this time, Comet is only available as a ...

A new search engine raises $1.1M to let obsessive fans dive down internet rabbit holes

Now, she’s starting something new: Lore, a search platform for people to research and discover internet obsessions. The ...
The New York Times

What Exactly Are A.I. Companies Trying to Build? Here’s a Guide.

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta and OpenAI plan to spend at least $325 billion by the end of the year in pursuit of A.I. We explain why they’re doing it. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta and OpenAI ...
New York Magazine

The AI-Scraping Free-for-All Is Coming to an End

You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years an experimental period, when ethical and legal considerations about where and how to acquire training data ...
Fast Company

Thanks to AI, this guy is running a Google rival from his laundry room

Nearly 30 years ago, when Google launched the search engine that started its long march to dominance, its founders started without much hardware. Known at first as Backrub and operated on the Stanford ...
Glamour

Eye Shadow for Hooded Eyes: How to Create a Look That Pops

All products featured on Glamour are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. We love to test ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Apple Plans AI-Powered Web Search Tool for Siri to Rival OpenAI, Perplexity

Apple Inc. is planning to launch its own artificial intelligence-powered web search tool next year, stepping up competition with OpenAI and Perplexity AI Inc. The company is working on a new system — ...
The Washington Post

5 tips for getting better answers from AI

Want to do better online research? Use artificial intelligence like a librarian. Three professional librarians recently helped me evaluate AI search tools, from ChatGPT 5 to Google’s AI overviews, by ...
WLWT

Google to share search engine data as part of antitrust ruling

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a major makeover of Google's search engine in a crackdown aimed at curbing the corrosive power of an illegal monopoly, but rebuffed the U.S. government's request to ...
The New York Times

Google Avoids Harshest Penalties in Landmark Search Monopoly Ruling

Judge Amit P. Mehta said the company must hand over some of its search data to rivals, but did not force other big changes the U.S. wanted. By David McCabe David McCabe has covered the Google search ...