Google’s AI-generated summaries are slashing traffic to news and information sites, creating a "devastating impact" on their clicks.

Google has introduced Web Guide, an AI-powered Search Labs experiment that organizes search results by topic using Gemini AI.

The comment came shortly after analysts peppered Pichai and other Google executives with questions about how AI would affect its core search business and why Google is spending an extra $10 billion on capital expenditures this year to catch up in the AI race.

Google’s AI Overviews slash clicks, with users abandoning searches more often and not visiting websites, Pew data shows.

OpenAI is developing an AI-powered web browser. It aims to rival Google Chrome. The browser will integrate ChatGPT-like features. This could change ho

The second day at SCL was packed with breaking news about the Google Trends API launch and insights about links, Schema, and the use of AI imagery.

In the next step of Google’s AI overview rollout, the technology is now coming to Google’s Discover feed. First identified by 9to5Google, it appears that the Discover feed is beginning to test out this new technology.

Gemini 2.5 Pro and Deep Search are only open to Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, who also receive higher usage limits for automated calling.

That balancing act helped Google parent Alphabet Inc. earn $28.2 billion, or $2.31 per share, during the second quarter, a 19% increase from the same time last year. Revenue climbed 14% from a year ago to $96.4 billion. Both figures easily eclipsed analysts’ projections.