Tag: search engines
Google Learn About is the patient teacher with a bag full of tricks we all wanted as kids
AI chatbots can be useful tools for learning about the world, but they aren’t usually designed as educators and often are full of caveats regarding where their data comes from. Google has debuted a new AI tutor called Learn About to solve those issues. It’s a personal tutor capable of…
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Microsoft is so desperate for people to drop Google for Bing it’s offering a $1 million reward
As if Microsoft’s Rewards loyalty program couldn’t get any better; it’s offering a chance to win $1,000,000 (USD) if you make a transition from your current search engine to Bing – starting October 8. It may sound too good to be true but as Windows Central reports, anyone in the…
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Google’s AI Overviews are now available to help a billion people avoid reading full articles
Google is bringing its AI Overviews feature to more than 100 countries around the world, a massive expansion after initially becoming available just in the U.S. and later a half dozen other countries. AI Overviews, which employ Google’s Gemini AI models to summarize answers to search queries, will now be…
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OpenAI officially takes on Google with SearchGPT – but not everybody gets access for now
After months of speculation, OpenAI‘s search engine, SearchGPT, is here but only as a prototype and in limited testing. Even so, it’s a watershed moment for the generative AI company and may represent the first substantial challenge to Google‘s Search engine dominance. OpenAI announced that it’s testing SearchGPT in a blog post…
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I’ve been using Google Search for 25 years and AI overview is the one thing that could ruin it for me
Google is search. It has competitors, but they’re like barnacles on the base of a mighty ship, slicing through the internet. No one does search better and yet, Google insists on mucking up its stellar results with, naturally, artificial intelligence. If you know me – and by now I assume…
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Google is bringing back classic search, with no AI – and I couldn’t be happier about that
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