Google’s AI-generated search answers have reportedly not been good for independent websites. Those answers, along with Google’s alterations to its search algorithm in support of them, have caused traffic to those websites to plunge, Bloomberg News reported Monday (April 7), citing interviews with 25 publishers...
Google reportedly suspended the account of an advertiser that was placing sponsored Google ads that pretended to offer access to DeepSeek but actually delivered malware. The criminal’s ads that showed up as sponsored Google search results linked to a website that aimed to look like DeepSeek’s but...
Google reportedly reached a preliminary settlement in a 14-year-old class action lawsuit brought by advertisers by agreeing to pay $100 million. The lawsuit began in March 2011 and alleged that Google failed to provide the advertisers with promised discounts and charged them for clicks on...
The Justice Department has dropped its bid to force Google to sell its artificial intelligence (AI) investments. That’s according to a report Friday (March 7) by Reuters, which said the government is still seeking a court order that would compel the tech giant to sell...
Google’s co-founder has reportedly urged the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) teams to “turbocharge” their work. Sergey Brin, who stepped down as Google’s president in 2019 but retains a seat on the board, says that means coming into the office “at least every week day,” working...
Google removed its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Gemini from the Google app for iOS devices, telling customers they can access the AI assistant by downloading the Gemini app from the App Store. The company delivered the news to customers in an email, TechCrunch reported Wednesday...
Google is making its visual search tool, Google Lens, available for use on iPhones. The feature is rolling out this week and will be offered globally on both Chrome and the Google app for iOS, the company said in a Wednesday (Feb. 19) press release....
Google has filed a patent for a personalized artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot that can answer — and respond to — phone calls on your behalf. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published the patent filing on Tuesday (Feb. 11) for a chatbot that can automatically...
Global daily visits to Google search are “stable” despite the surge in the number of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude that summarize answers for users, according to an exclusive Bank of America Global Research report seen by PYMNTS, released Monday (Feb. 10)....
