Last year’s top US search trends included the election, Donald Trump, the New York Times puzzle “Connections,” the New York Yankees and then-Vice President Kamala Harris, according to Google.

AI is changing the way we search — and transforming the practice of search engine optimization. Brands want to ensure they're visible in AI searches and that they're accurately represented. Experts ...

Search engines have evolved significantly from basic keyword matching to intelligent systems leveraging artificial intelligence (AI). This transformation prompts an important question: when it comes ...

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Google’s (GOOG) (GOOGL) new AI search tool to build a comprehensive travel itinerary is weighing on travel-related stocks with shares of Expedia (EXPE), Booking Holdings (BKNG), and Tripadvisor (TRIP) ...

With iOS 26.2, Apple is adding a prompt that allows iPhone users in Japan to select a preferred search engine. As noted on Reddit, the option to choose a search engine comes up after installing iOS 26 ...

Since last year’s disastrous rollout of Google’s AI Overviews, the world at large has been aware of how AI-powered search results can differ wildly from the traditional list of links search engines ...

Every year, Search Engine Land is delighted to celebrate the best of search marketing by rewarding the agencies, in-house teams, and individuals worldwide for delivering exceptional results. Today, ...

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The Internet has Google. Now biology has MetaGraph. Detailed today in Nature, the search engine can quickly sift through the staggering volumes of biological data housed in public repositories. “It’s ...

The new Search API is the latest in a series of rollouts as Perplexity angles to position itself as a leader in the nascent AI-powered search engine space. AI-powered search capabilities are ...

SearXNG users are the tinkers and testers of the private-search world. Many of them self-host SearXNG, a meta-search front end that can query dozens of engines while stripping identifiers, filtering ...