Tag: search engines
Is Google down? Widespread outages reported across APAC, search broken for many users
If you’re an APAC resident and you’ve found Google services intermittently glitchy all afternoon, it isn’t just you — thousands of users have flocked to outage-tracking sites like Downdetector and IsDown.app to report problems with the search giant, starting around 5:30am BST / 12:30am EDT / 2:30pm AEST on May…
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Ask Jeeves quietly shuts down after nearly three decades, after pioneering conversational web search long before ChatGPT and Gemini
Ask Jeeves has closed after almost 30 years It pioneered natural language web searches Today, ChatGPT and Gemini work in similar ways With AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini available, it’s now easy to run web searches like “what are the best sights in Rome?” or “how do you fix…
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Google’s AI-powered conversational Search Live tool is going global — with real-time answers now available in more languages
Google Search Live is now available globally in 200 countries and 98 languages Search Live uses the new Gemini 3.1 Flash Live audio and voice model to enable a “more natural” conversational search Audio responses have links to the information source Google has rolled out its AI-powered conversational search tool,…
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Want to upgrade your tech news? Here’s how to set up Google’s handy new Preferred Sources feature
Google has a new way to let you customize your search results The new ‘preferred source’ option in Top Stories is now live in the US Here’s how to set TechRadar as one of your favorite sources Staying on top of the latest tech news can be a brain-spinning challenge,…
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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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