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, ...

A group of researchers says it has identified a hidden reason we use Google for nearly all web searches: We’ve never given other options a real shot. Their research experiment suggests that Google is ...

The Google search engine is the most popular by far, but other options do exist. And the federal government wants those options to get more attention. That’s due to a court case in which Google was ...