Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Reddit that showed an easy way to completely remove an entire website from Google’s search index without a search console verified account. The person who ...

Google's major search algorithm updates this past year have left many smaller websites with no other choice than to lay off staff. The internet is worse for it. Imad is a senior reporter covering ...

Numerous studies indicate that the shift to AI search features and the use of AI chatbots are killing traffic to publishers’ sites. But Google on Wednesday denied that’s the case, at least in ...

This year’s conference included another change to search, this one more profound but less aggressively deployed. “AI Mode,” which has similarly been in beta testing for a while, will appear as an ...

In context: Google has drawn rising criticism over the added features of its search engine in recent years. As the company introduces fully AI-generated summaries of search results, it has also added ...

Google wasn’t around for the advent of the World Wide Web, but it successfully remade the web on its own terms. Today, any website that wants to be findable has to play by Google’s rules, and after ...

AI Overviews in Google Search are having yet another moment. After mistakenly telling people they should eat at least one small rock a day for minerals last year, the AI answers are now inventing ...

If you're looking for web links only in Google Search results, create a custom search shortcut for your browser. Peter is a writer and editor for the CNET How-To team. He has been covering technology, ...

Since Google overhauled its search engine, publishers have tried to assess the danger to their brittle business models while calling for government intervention. By Nico Grant and Katie Robertson Nico ...

The documents reveal how Google Search is using, or has used, clicks, links, content, entities, Chrome data and more for ranking. A trove of leaked Google documents has given us an unprecedented look ...