Lisa M. Given receives funding from the Australian Research Council and Australia's eSafety Commission. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Association for ...

Currently, there is a single ad spot at the top of search results in the App Store. For example, if you search for “Facebook,” you might see an ad at the top of the results for TikTok. This is because ...

In the past few days, tapping the Pixel Launcher search bar opens a different screen powered by the Google app. This is not a bug and an intentional change. Previously, the bar at bottom of your ...

Analysis of 18,377 query pairs shows retrieval-based AI systems like Perplexity achieve 43% domain overlap with Google, while reasoning models like ChatGPT cite only 21% of the same sources Search ...

Apple today announced the App Store Mini Apps Partner Program, allowing apps that host mini apps and mini games to support In-App Purchases. The program is designed for developers who host mini apps ...

Since last year’s disastrous rollout of Google’s AI Overviews, the world at large has been aware of how AI-powered search results can differ wildly from the traditional list of links search engines ...

Google is testing “History Off Search,” a new, prominent “incognito mode” toggle in its Android app that finally enables fast, one-tap private searching, mirroring a feature long available on iOS. The ...

The crawl stats report in Google Search Console is missing a day of data again. The data gap is for October 14, 2025. If you look at the chart, you will see a hole in the data, where it is missing a ...

The explosion of OnlyFans over the past few years has created an incredibly diverse ecosystem of creators—from fitness instructors and chefs to adult entertainers—each building their own niche ...

Search Live is now available for Google app users in the US, offering real-time, multimodal search, powered by AI. This feature will enable users to have real-time conversations with Google Search in ...

In a nutshell: Google has introduced an experimental desktop search application for Windows, marking a shift from its recent browser-first strategy toward renewed investment in native PC software.

Google has mostly shied away from making its own native desktop apps — even going so far as to require users to continue loading up a web browser to use tools like ...