25 stories tagged Search
Google Images is celebrating 25 years of visual search with new AI-powered features, including natural language search refinements and creative tools that let users generate and explore visual content more intuitively.
A leaked demo from Google DeepMind shows an AI-powered search engine that understands complex, multi-part questions and generates detailed, structured responses — moving beyond link lists to direct answers, summaries, and comparison charts.
Google Search introduces a new feature in AI Mode that lets users securely link and interact with apps like Gmail and Google Drive directly from search results, eliminating the need to switch between tabs or services.
The European Union has ordered Google to open up its AI search models and data to rivals, aiming to foster competition and innovation in the AI search market.
The European Union has mandated that Google must allow rival AI assistants and search engines greater access to Android and Google Search, in a landmark enforcement of the bloc's digital antitrust rules that could reshape the mobile and search landscape.
Researchers introduced Contrastive Reflection, a method that helps AI search agents debug their own prompts by comparing successful and failed attempts. This could make AI search tools like chatbots and assistants more accurate and reliable over time.
Researchers created a new benchmark called DiscoBench to evaluate how well AI search tools ask clarifying questions when users' requests are unclear, vague, or even factually incorrect. This helps AI assistants avoid cascading errors in multi-step searches.
In the Weights is a new service that lets you see how AI models perceive you. It's like a vanity search, but for AI-generated insights.
Hugging Face introduced a new open-source standard called Agentic Resource Discovery that enables AI agents to autonomously discover and connect to external tools, APIs, and data sources on the fly. While it is related to search, its primary focus is on expanding agent capabilities through dynamic resource discovery, not just web search.
Researchers found that standard parallel sampling in AI search often leads to repetitive queries. Their new method, DivInit, improves efficiency by diversifying initial queries, reducing redundant work.
Researchers introduced a self-evolving AI agent that improves legal case searches by rewriting queries to boost BM25 performance without any parameter training. This could streamline legal research for professionals.
Google is expanding its data collection to include images, audio, and video from Lens, Search Live, and Translate. This data will be used to improve AI services, but users can opt out.
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has ordered Google to allow publishers to opt out of AI Search features. This gives website owners more control over how their content is used in AI-generated summaries and overviews.
Enterprise AI search startup Glean tripled its annual revenue to $300M, thanks to its ability to help companies save money. The company is thriving even as larger tech giants enter the AI search market.
Google’s overhaul of Search to prioritize AI agents over traditional blue links has sparked a backlash. Users are flocking to DuckDuckGo, with app installs up 30% in a month. The shift highlights growing resistance to AI-driven search changes.
Google's latest AI update has a quirk: typing 'disregard' now breaks the search interface. This accidental bug highlights how AI can have unexpected side effects. The company is working to fix it.
Google's AI Mode is transforming search by encouraging natural language queries over traditional keywords. After one year, users are adapting to more conversational searches.
Hugging Face has launched the Ettin Reranker Family, a new set of open-source tools to improve search result accuracy. These models help prioritize the most relevant information in search queries, making it easier to find what you need.
Google is replacing traditional search results with AI-powered conversational answers and interactive tools. This change could significantly impact how users find information and publishers get traffic.
Google is revamping its search engine with AI Overviews and AI Mode, making it easier to switch between them. This update could change how we find and interact with information online.
Google has completely overhauled its search box, turning it into an AI-powered conversation tool. This change could make finding information faster and more intuitive for everyone.
Google has updated its spam policy to include attempts to manipulate its AI models in search results. This move aims to prevent deceptive techniques that could skew AI-generated responses.
IBM has open-sourced Granite Embedding Multilingual R2, a powerful AI model that improves search and translation across languages. It handles up to 32,000 words at once, making it useful for large documents and complex queries.
Search Live is expanding globally to all languages and locations where AI Mode is available. This move aims to make Search Live more accessible worldwide.