Web browsers are among the most essential pieces of software we use daily, yet we often take them for granted. Most users settle for whatever default ships with their devices -- and that's a mistake.

People sick of AI have a new option for searching the web. DuckDuckGo recently rolled out an easy way to access an AI-free version of its search engine. Google has been the dominant search engine for ...

E-commerce performance issues rarely occur simultaneously. Slowdowns on product pages, bags, and checkout start modestly and grow until a phone tap becomes a longer wait. Good news: many of the ...

The good news? This isn’t an AI limitation – it’s a design feature. AI’s flexibility to work across domains only works because it doesn’t come preloaded with assumptions about your specific situation.

Decentralized search engines are coming up as an alternative approach. Instead of depending on a single organization to index ...

Using a mix of search engine experts and “hackers,” Epstein sought to promote his philanthropy so he could bury negative news ...

Google blends social posts, short-form video, and AI into news results. Adapt your strategy for visibility across SERP features and Discover.

Is this the new technical SEO frontier?

Cloudflare launched Markdown for Agents, converting HTML pages to markdown automatically when AI crawlers request it through content negotiation.

Google and Microsoft's new WebMCP standard lets websites expose callable tools to AI agents through the browser — replacing costly scraping with structured function calls.

You can talk to the chatbot like it's a friendly acquaintance, and it'll help you get a lot done. Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and ...