Reddit updated its robots.txt file to block all search engines. The file tells all web crawlers that they are not allowed to index the site, together with an explanatory message. Reddit believes in an ...

Reddit will continue blocking Microsoft and other search engines and AI models from crawling its content using robots.txt – unless they strike a content licensing deal. That’s what Reddit CEO Steve ...

CHONGQING, CHINA - APRIL 20: In this photo illustration, the Google logo is displayed on a smartphone screen, with the colorful Google branding seen in the background, on April 20, 2025, in Chongqing, ...

Artificial intelligence has basically taken over and replace traditional web search engines. You’ve already seen it with AI overviews in Google Search, followed up with OpenAI going the way of ...

Generative AI is infiltrating everything you do online, including how you find information. If you're bored with traditional web search, give one of these five AI-powered engines a try. I've been ...

ChatGPT makes web search, voice features and maps free for all users, expanding access beyond Premium subscribers. hatGPT's web search is now free for everyone with an account. Voice search works in ...

It is looking towards a future where the Meta AI model can answer questions or provide information to users based on the indexes they collected from the internet, straying away from Big Tech services.

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. For about two decades now, virtually any business that exists on the ...

Browsers are an undeniably crucial aspect of the internet as there's no other way to traverse cyberspace. Well, now the internet is so much more than using a web browser and going to a website since ...