Google privately told a federal court that “the open web is already in rapid decline,” a sharp reversal from its public claims that search traffic is booming — and a stunning admission as the Justice ...

Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, said in May that web publishing is not dying. Nick Fox, VP of Search at Google, said in May that the web is thriving. But in a court document filed by Google on late ...

Google is asserting that web traffic is not suffering because of AI tools and that its search engine directs visitors to an unprecedented array of websites. But last week, Google contradicted this ...

In her latest column for ExchangeWire, Shirley Marschall discusses whether rumours of the death of the open web have been greatly exaggerated, or whether the prevailing tides can indeed be turned.

Is the web thriving or faltering? Google has an unexpected take in a new legal filing. Google is heading back to court soon in hopes of convincing a judge that it should not have to split up its ad ...

In context: As Google users complain about the worsening quality of search results and GenAI integration, European organizations are working to plant the seeds of alternative solutions. One such ...

Google said in a legal filing last week that the open web "is already in rapid decline." The company later said this was being misinterpreted and filed a clarification with the court. Google execs ...

Researchers at Sentient Foundation have released Open Deep Search (ODS), an open-source framework that can match the quality of proprietary AI search solutions such as Perplexity and ChatGPT Search.