For decades, the way we find information on the internet changed only in small ways. Doing a traditional Google search today doesn't feel all that different from when, in the 1990s, you would Ask ...

Not happy with the search results provided by Google? Welcome to the club. The solution to your problem could be a custom search engine tailored to your specific needs. The good news is that you can ...

Google has dominated the search space for so long that a U.S. District Court judge recently found that it has acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in online search. You have probably used Google ...

For many people Google is search — they’ve simply never considered an alternative. But there are plenty of search engines other than Google, offering benefits such as increased privacy, environmental ...

Have you ever found yourself frustrated with traditional search engines—endlessly scrolling through ads, irrelevant results, or worrying about your data privacy? In today’s world, where information is ...

As Google grew in size and influence over the years, the tech giant also grew to exercise an awful lot of power over the shape of the internet, and its data-hungry tendrils reach into nearly every ...

ZDNET key takeaways If you use multiple search engines, pay attention.Firefox's new feature that makes it easy to switch up ...

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