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One Tech Tip: Ready to go beyond Google? Here’s how to use new generative AI search sites
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One Tech Tip: Ready to go beyond Google? Here’s how to use new generative AI search sites

[ad_1] It's not just you. A lot people think Google searches are getting worse. And the rise of generative AI chatbots is giving people new and different ways to look up information.While Google has been the one-stop shop for decades — after all, we commonly call searches “googling” — its longtime dominance has attracted a flood of sponsored or spammy links and junk content fueled by “search engine optimization” techniques. That pushes down genuinely useful results. A recent study by German researchers suggests the quality of results from Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo is indeed declining. Google says its results are of significantly better quality than its rivals, citing measurements by third parties. Now, chatbots powered by generative artificial intelligence, including from Google itsel...
Five things we learned at the US Google antitrust trial
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Five things we learned at the US Google antitrust trial

[ad_1] US government lawyers rested their case on Tuesday in the landmark antitrust trial against Google after five weeks of testimony that saw some of big tech's most senior executives take the stand.At the heart of the case is Google's search engine and whether the company has acted illegally to preserve its overwhelming dominance. Here are five things we have learned so far at the trial: - Apple makes billions on Google -Apple's intricate relationship with Google was the trial's main source of intrigue, as the US government contends that it is by paying billions of dollars to the iPhone maker every year that Google is able to maintain its monopoly.Exactly how much has yet to be made public, but according to some estimates mentioned in evidence, every year Google pays a total of ten b...
Google pays Apple nearly $20 bn a year to be on your iPhone, but this fantastic deal is in danger
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Google pays Apple nearly $20 bn a year to be on your iPhone, but this fantastic deal is in danger

[ad_1] Amid the sensational US Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust case against Google, where the legality of the company's deal with Apple is under contention, through which it has become the default search engine on iPhones, a new report has made a major revelation on just how much is being paid. The antitrust case intends to find whether anti-competition practices were used by Google to keep itself as the default search engine on iPhone 12, iPhone 13, iPhone 14, iPhone 15 and other models. Recently Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified in the case and called it a ‘problematic' behavior of tech companies to strike exclusive deals with platforms to keep competition away.Bernstein, a firm that advises investors on where to place their bets, has published a report where it has reiterat...
DuckDuckGo chief says Google contract stopped deal with Apple
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DuckDuckGo chief says Google contract stopped deal with Apple

[ad_1] The CEO of privacy-oriented search engine DuckDuckGo said its talks with Apple about a potential contract failed because of Google's multibillion-dollar deals with the smartphone maker, transcripts of a landmark antitrust trial of the Alphabet unit showed.Gabriel Weinberg, who also founded the company, testified on Sept. 21 on the effect on DuckDuckGo of Google's $10 billion in annual payments to smartphone makers and others to keep its search engine as the default on computers or mobile devices. Some of his testimony took place outside of public view. A redacted transcript unsealed late on Wednesday showed DuckDuckGo had struck a deal with Apple in 2014 to be shown as an option on Apple devices. Soon after, DuckDuckGo began pressing Apple to be made the default choice for users ...
Apple AI Chief points out new private browser search at Google trial
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Apple AI Chief points out new private browser search at Google trial

[ad_1] John Giannandrea, a former top Google executive who decamped to Apple Inc. to head its artificial intelligence business, pointed out a quiet change in the latest iPhone software update that allows users to select a search engine other than Google's when browsing the internet in private mode.The iOS 17, released Monday, added “a second setting, so you could choose two different” search engines, Giannandrea said in testimony in federal court in Washington as part of the Justice Department's antitrust suit against Alphabet Inc.'s Google. The change means iPhone users can more easily switch between Google and a different search engine with a single tap. The difficulty of switching search engines has been hotly contested in US government's antitrust suit, which alleges that Google ill...
DuckDuckGo CEO says it takes ‘Too Many Steps’ to switch from Google
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DuckDuckGo CEO says it takes ‘Too Many Steps’ to switch from Google

[ad_1] DuckDuckGo, a privacy-centric search engine founded about 15 years ago, has languished with a small market share as consumers face difficulties switching from Google when the behemoth is the default option on computer screens, the upstart's founder said in an antitrust trial.“Switching is way harder than it needs to be,” Chief Executive Officer Gabriel Weinberg said in federal court on Thursday. “There's just too many steps.” Weinberg testified Thursday in the government's antitrust trial against Google's parent, Alphabet Inc. The Department of Justice claims Google pays more than $10 billion a year to tech rivals, smartphone makers and wireless providers to be the preselected option, or default, on PCs and mobile phones. By illegally maintaining this monopoly, the government all...
Bard, Bing and Baidu: how big tech’s AI race will transform search – and all of computing
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Bard, Bing and Baidu: how big tech’s AI race will transform search – and all of computing

[ad_1] Today, if you want to find a good moving company, you might ask your favourite search engine – Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo perhaps – for some advice. After wading past half a page of adverts, you get a load of links to articles on moving companies. You click on one of the links and finally read about how to pick a good 'un. But not for much longer. In a major reveal this week, Google announced plans to add its latest AI chatbot, LaMDA, to the Google search engine. The chatbot has been called the “Bard”. I hope William Shakespeare's descendants sue. It's not the job of arguably the greatest writer of the English language to answer mundane questions about how to find a good moving company. But he will. Ask the Bard how, and he will reply a...