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heh, Kagi's April's Fool is actually funny: https://kagi.com

Kagi Search - A Premium Search Engine
Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.

lastfm_aminer: Last.fm social graph
This network contains the social graph of last.fm, a site that provides a streaming radio service, where users can search music and get personalized recommendation. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i follows user j.
This network has 136409 nodes and 1685524 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

I am familiar with Komoot but never used it, and I guess I never will.
“Komoot has launched a ChatGPT integration…”
#noAI

Komoot Adds ChatGPT-Powered Route Discovery
Find better trails quicker & easier, with better search parameters, using this ChatGPT integration, then navigate in the komoot app.

Australia's eSafety Commissioner threatens action against app stores and search engines if AI services operating in Australia don't verify user ages by March 9 (Byron Kaye/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel…

❤️ https://github.com/imprakharshukla/claude-launcher

GitHub - imprakharshukla/claude-launcher: TUI for managing Claude Code sessions - search, resume, bookmark
TUI for managing Claude Code sessions - search, resume, bookmark - imprakharshukla/claude-launcher

"Digital Technologies and Reading Habits of Students: A Scoping Review"
https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2025-0040
"This scoping review aims to map the literature on the types of digital technologies and the purposes of using digital technologies by secondary school students."

lastfm_aminer: Last.fm social graph
This network contains the social graph of last.fm, a site that provides a streaming radio service, where users can search music and get personalized recommendation. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i follows user j.
This network has 136409 nodes and 1685524 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

"""
The worst of the internet is continuously attacking the best of the internet. This is a distributed denial of service attack on the good parts of the World Wide Web.
If you’re using the products powered by these attacks, you’re part of the problem. Don’t pretend it’s cute to ask ChatGPT for something. Don’t pretend it’s somehow being technologically open-minded to continuously search for nails to hit with the latest “AI” hammers.
If you’re going to use generative tools powered by large language models, don’t pretend you don’t know how your sausage is made.
"""
https://adactio.com/journal/21831
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Remember how Mike Richards screwed up Jeopardy before Ken Jennings finally took over as host?
▶️ How Jeopardy Botched the Search for a New Host
https://youtube.com/watch?v=izCY8mTkRAo&si=MHoOdRH-neN6DHnk

Google-Agent vs Googlebot: Google Defines the Technical Boundary Between User Triggered AI Access and Search Crawling Systems Today
As Google integrates AI capabilities across its product suite, a new technical entity has surfaced in server logs: Google-Agent. For software devs, understanding this entity is critical for distinguishing between automated indexers and real-time, user-initiated requests.
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Google-Agent vs Googlebot: Google Defines the Technical Boundary Between User Triggered AI Access and Search Crawling Systems Today
Google-Agent vs Googlebot: Google Defines the Technical Boundary Between User Triggered AI Access and Search Crawling Systems Today

aus der reihe "warum ist dieses bibliothekarische buch nicht open access erschienen?!" heute:
"Figuring It Out: The Search for Meaningful Metrics"
https://bookstore.emerald.com/figuring-it-out-hb-9781806862924.html

I am late to the party, but up to now I just thought: well, search is getting worse all over the place, and at least since Google became Alphabet it is only about the money. But “The men who killed Google”¹ explains how this was deliberate, how driven by (short-term) shareholder value increase they actively made search worse. Ant that there was an internal fight – and now Google is far away from “don't be evil”.
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The Man Who Killed Google Search
Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. UPDATE: Prabhakar has now been deposed as head of search, read here for more details. This is the story

Why is macOS 26 Spotlight search so slow? It takes about 5 seconds to search the local Dictionary - whereas an internet search is under a second.

An image search shows it for sale on a lot of sites. Dunno whose original art it is.

Nitko:
Baš nitko:
#windows : *i dalje bivaju hrpa AI govana*
#Microsoft: *doda tipku koja otvara Bing search za "internet speed test"*

cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

Following UK CMA's proposals, Google says it is exploring controls to let websites opt out of AI Overviews and AI Mode (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-opt-out-of-search-ai-features-40831.html

Google Exploring Ways To Allow Sites To Opt Out Of AI Overviews & AI Mode
Google just announced it is looking into ways to allow websites to specifically opt out of Google using its content in the Search generative AI features such as AI Overviews and AI Mode. This comes b

In a big win for protesters’ rights,
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants to search a protester’s devices and digital data and a nonprofit’s social media data.
The case, "Armendariz v. City of Colorado Springs", arose after a housing protest in 2021,
during which Colorado Springs police arrested protesters for obstructing a roadway.
After the demonstration, police also obtaine…

Victory! Tenth Circuit Finds Fourth Amendment Doesn’t Support Broad Search of Protesters’ Devices and Digital Data
In a big win for protesters’ rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants to search a protester’s devices and digital data and a nonprofit’s social media data.The case, Armendariz v. City of Colorado Springs, arose...

Google macht seine KI-Funktion „Search Live“ weltweit verfügbar
Google erweitert den Zugang zu seiner KI-Funktion „Search Live“, mit der Nutzer per Sprache und Kamera interaktiv suchen können – nun auch in Deutschland.

Lange Zeit https://monocles.eu/search mit Searx als Hauptsuchmaschine genutzt. Bis es leider nicht mehr ging.
Nun eben ein Video zu https://searxng.org

RE: https://gardenstate.social/@stefan/116308200316706011
Been getting some great feedback today and have already added some cool features like a mini editor you can toggle on for those who want more search UI on the screen.

Left my computer unlocked and walked away for less than 2 minutes and my daughter struck again.

cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

For everyone who likes the slower parts of #tool songs there is an album with four ~10 min songs (instrumental) with some kind of heavy psychedelic songs I want to recommend. Search for the artist #minusgreen and the album Equals zero. It's wonderful...

My Amazon search for "coffee grounds whacker" has correctly identified the term I didn't know "knock box"

Not seen https://www.ecosia.org before. This is really good, seem to source the results from the usual places so results seem pretty good.

Following UK CMA's proposals, Google says it is exploring controls to let websites opt out of AI Overviews and AI Mode (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-opt-out-of-search-ai-features-40831.html

Google Exploring Ways To Allow Sites To Opt Out Of AI Overviews & AI Mode
Google just announced it is looking into ways to allow websites to specifically opt out of Google using its content in the Search generative AI features such as AI Overviews and AI Mode. This comes b

cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

🥛 Indigenous trees might be the secret to climate resilient dairy farming in Benin, says this new study
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-indigenous-trees-secret-climate-resilient.html

Indigenous trees might be the secret to climate resilient dairy farming in Benin, says this new study
In the drylands of Benin, West Africa, livestock farming is under growing pressure. These vast, hot landscapes cover roughly 70% of the country's land area. Their sparse pastures and scattered trees sustain around six million grazing animals, including 2.5 million cattle, one million sheep and 2.4 million goats which walk with herders over long distances in search of food and water.

#Sunstone browser now has a start page, with default search provided by DuckDuckGo. All of Sunstone's internal pages are going to be linked through the menu bar provided in the default page template. I am no web designer, but I've taken time to make the design responsive and hopefully nice and cleanly functional. Shrink the page down past a certain level and the sidebar becomes a top…

Uh, that's called a pizza cutter. I thought this city knew pizza? https://gothamist.com/news/man-posing-as-fbi-agent-tries-to-free-luigi-mangione-from-jail-with-a-fork-officials-say

cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

Any thoughts on search options?
The ad driven postings taking me to on-line but not local stores , treating every search as if I'm looking for something to buy, the return of multiple related items when I'm searching for a specific item (down to part number in the query) are making search far less useful than the printed options of my youth.

Any thoughts on search options?
The ad driven postings taking me to on-line but not local stores , treating every search as if I'm looking for something to buy, the return of multiple related items when I'm searching for a specific item (down to part number in the query) are making search far less useful than the printed options of my youth.

Let's expose more hidden links in #Jellyfin for #Roku!!!!!!!!
Moving the search and settings links out from under the user menu and putting them directly on the home screen.
#UX

Using your AI chatbot as a search engine? Be careful what you believe https://theconversation.com/using-your-ai-chatbot-as-a-search-engine-be-careful-what-you-believe-277616

Using your AI chatbot as a search engine? Be careful what you believe
Because of the way generative AI works, there is no real way to prevent false information being presented as truth – or to correct it permanently.

trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…

When Meta released its new AI-enhanced smart glasses last October, many minds travelled back to Google Glass, the search giant’s abortive venture into the same territory a decade previously. A lot has changed in 10 years.
https://www.computing.co.…

When AI goes hands-free: The rise of smart glasses and humanoid robots
In the fourth part of our coverage of IT trends in 2026, we look at the return of smart glasses and the rise of humanoid ...

A federal judge in Virginia has denied the DOJ's request to search Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's devices as part of a national security leak probe (Perry Stein/Washington Post)

Judge says government may not search devices seized from Post reporter
The ruling suggested that the federal judge in Virginia did not trust the government to conduct a narrow search of Hannah Natanson’s devices.

just delighted to be back in albuquerque after a few years away for this year's grateful dead scholars' caucus at SWPACA, but already missing the hotel blue & its weird but undeniably cozy heat-optional electric fireplaces.
you can peep the whole conference program here, text search for "grateful dead" to check out this year's caucus presentations/papers/roundtables.

Ich hatte noch Reserven auf einem meiner VPS-Server und habe dort die Foto-App Immich installiert. Bin ziemlich begeistert bis jetzt. Versuche gerade alle meine iCloud Fotos dorthin zu transferieren. Ein ziemlicher Akt, aber es wird langsam.
https://immich.app/

Immich
Self-hosted photo and video management solution. Easily back up, organize, and manage your photos on your own server. Immich helps you browse, search and organize your photos and videos with ease, without sacrificing your privacy.

RE: #FuckICE I can still search for "Fuck ICE" and "ICE", I'm from …

trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…

Heute ist #SaferInternetDay und das wäre doch der perfekte Tag für die #DIDay Kampagne, um sich von #Ecosia zu verabschieden.
Eine Suchmaschine, die mit 'grüner KI' wirbt: Ganz schle…

Google expands Search Live, its AI conversational search feature previously limited to the US and India, to all languages and regions where AI Mode is available (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/google-is-launching-search-live-globally/

Google is launching Search Live globally | TechCrunch
Search Live allows users to point their phone camera at objects to get real-time assistance, enabling back-and-forth conversations that draw on the visual context from the camera feed.

Somehow FCDO has made the UK sanctions list search even more shit.
You used to be able to select the "Sanctions Imposed" and order by date - but now you get zero results unless you provide a search term.
https://search-uk-sanctions-list.service.gov.uk

Instagram says it will alert parents if their teen repeatedly searches for terms related to self-harm or suicide in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/885110/meta-instagram-parent-alert-teen-…

Instagram will alert parents if their kids ‘repeatedly’ search for self-harm topics
Starting next week, Instagram will notify parents to check on their teen searching for terms related to self-harm or suicide.

Yahoo launches Scout, an AI answer engine powered by Claude, in beta for US users on desktop and mobile, and joins Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/yahoo-scout-ai-search-launch

Yahoo launches AI answer engine, Scout
Scout is on the Yahoo Search app and integrates across Mail, News, Finance and Sports.

für ein bisschen #squirrelcontent aus der kategorie #icons zwischendurch: https://www.flaticon.com/search?word=squir

Did you miss one of the Web414 meetings in 2007? Looks like we recorded them!
#mke

I love ads.
I did not search for this term.

Source: Google plans to test search changes in Europe, displaying results from competing vertical search services next to its own, seeking to avoid EU fines (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/google-test-changes-search-…

Profound, which tracks how AI models recommend brands across millions of prompts, raised a $96M Series C at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $155M (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/exclusi

Exclusive: As AI threatens search, Profound raises $96 million to help brands stay visible
The Lightspeed-led round values the 18-month-old startup at $1 billion as marketers race to understand how ChatGPT and other AI systems describe them.

Google adds Gemini 3 to AI Overviews as the default model globally and now lets users ask follow-up questions "seamlessly" via AI Mode (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/868497/google-ai-search-follow-up-questions-gemini-3

Google Search now lets you ask AI Overviews follow-up questions
Gemini 3 will be the default model for AI Overviews and Google says follow-ups let you jump seamlessly into conversations with AI Mode.

"An AI Tool Recreates Some of the Friction of Academic Search. Is that Actually Helpful?" @ Katina Magazine:
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/resource-reviews/2026/ai-tool-recreates-friction-of-academic-search<…

I use linkding for my bookmarks and I tried to do a search using the term "linkding" and the search engine assumed I wanted to search for "LinkedIn" and in other news Fuck You search engine!

Yahoo launches Scout, an AI answer engine powered by Claude, in beta for US users on desktop and mobile, and joins Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/yahoo-scout-ai-search-launch

Yahoo launches AI answer engine, Scout
Scout is on the Yahoo Search app and integrates across Mail, News, Finance and Sports.

The EU gives Google a six-month deadline to lift technical barriers to rival AI search assistants on Android and give key data to other search engine providers (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

Google Android Told by EU to Open Up to Rival AI Systems
Google was handed a six-month European Union deadline to lift technical barriers to rival AI search assistants on Android and give key data to other search engine providers in the latest round of its Big Tech crackdown.

Savannah Guthrie plans to return to the Today show on April 6, after taking a little more than two months' leave to search for her abducted mother (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/business/media/savannah-guthrie-today.html

Savannah Guthrie Is Returning to ‘Today’
NBC said that she would return as an anchor of the show on April 6, a little more than two months after the disappearance of her mother.

Profound, which tracks how AI models recommend brands across millions of prompts, raised a $96M Series C at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $155M (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/exclusi

Exclusive: As AI threatens search, Profound raises $96 million to help brands stay visible
The Lightspeed-led round values the 18-month-old startup at $1 billion as marketers race to understand how ChatGPT and other AI systems describe them.

Google rolls out its Veo video model globally within Google Ads, allowing advertisers to create 10-second videos for YouTube from up to three static images (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/google-brings-its…

Google brings its Veo video generation model to Google Ads globally
Veo lets advertisers turn up to three static images into 10-second videos ready to serve on YouTube — no video production required.

A survey of US teens: 57% use AI chatbots to search for info, 54% use them to do schoolwork, 47% for fun or entertainment, 12% for emotional support, and more (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/02/24/how-teens-use-and-view-ai/

How Teens Use and View AI
Just over half of U.S. teens say they've used chatbots for help with schoolwork, and 12% say they’ve gotten emotional support from these tools. Teens tend to view AI's future impact on their lives more positively than negatively.

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 35093 nodes and 747063 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Survey: when breaking news happens, 36% of US adults turn first to their preferred news outlet for more info, 28% use search engines, and 19% use social media (Christopher St. Aubin/Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Where do Americans turn first for information about breaking news?
When a breaking news event happens, 36% of U.S. adults say they typically turn first to their preferred news organization to get more information.

Job listings show that DeepSeek hopes to broaden its AI offerings with a search engine capable of supporting multiple languages and more emphasis on agents (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

"Classifying the Ways LLMs Summarise in Academic Search" https://aarontay.substack.com/p/classifying-the-ways-llms-summarise

cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

The UK CMA proposes measures to let publishers opt out of content scraping for Google's AI Overviews and AI training without losing visibility in search results (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan

A Jeffrey Epstein victim files a class action against the Trump administration and Google, claiming Google's search and AI Mode published victims' personal info (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/27/jeffrey-epstein-victims-…

Epstein victims sue Google and the Trump administration over alleged disclosure of personal information
A lawsuit filed in Northern California alleges that Google's AI features generated contact information for Epstein victims.

A US judge rebukes a DOJ prosecutor for not mentioning a 1980 law protecting journalists when seeking a warrant to search WaPo reporter Hannah Natanson's home (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/us/politics/washington-post-reporter…

Judge Rebukes U.S. Over Application to Search Washington Post Reporter’s Home
A prosecutor apologized for failing to alert the magistrate to a 1980 law that restricts searches for reporting materials.

cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

Nimble, whose AI agents structure real-time web data into tables that can be queried like a database, raised a $47M Series B, bringing its total funding to $75M (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/nimble-way-raises-47m-to-giv…

Nimble raises $47M to give AI agents access to real-time web data | TechCrunch
Nimble uses AI agents to search the web, verify and validate the results, and then clean and structure the information into neat tables that can then be queried like a database.

How true crime influencers on YouTube are compromising the search for Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today show host Savannah, including by "investigating" tips (Alaina Demopoulos/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f

The UK CMA proposes measures to let publishers opt out of content scraping for Google's AI Overviews and AI training without losing visibility in search results (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan

trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…

Reddit is testing an AI search feature that takes community recommendations and shows matching products from its advertisers in the results (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/reddit-is-testing-a-new-ai-search-feature-for-shopp…

Reddit is testing a new AI search feature for shopping | TechCrunch
A small group of users in the U.S. will start to see search results that include interactive product carousels with pricing, images, and direct where-to-buy links.

Reddit is testing an AI search feature that takes community recommendations and shows matching products from its advertisers in the results (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/reddit-is-testing-a-new-ai-search-feature-for-shopp…

Reddit is testing a new AI search feature for shopping | TechCrunch
A small group of users in the U.S. will start to see search results that include interactive product carousels with pricing, images, and direct where-to-buy links.

A US judge dismisses an antitrust case brought by Helena World Chronicle and Emmerich Newspapers alleging Google has monopolized the news market via Search (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/google-antitrust-…

US judge dismisses Google monopoly claim brought by local publishers
Google has successfully dismissed a case brought by two news publishers alleging it has a monopoly in the online news market.

Perplexity's retreat from ads signals a strategic shift as it recognizes its product is not for a mass audience and expects growth to come from enterprise sales (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-ads-shift-search-google/

Perplexity’s Retreat From Ads Signals a Bigger Strategic Shift
The AI search startup once predicted advertising would be a massive business. Now it's betting on a smaller, more valuable audience.

trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…

Perplexity's retreat from ads signals a strategic shift as it recognizes its product is not for a mass audience and expects growth to come from enterprise sales (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-ads-shift-search-google/

Perplexity’s Retreat From Ads Signals a Bigger Strategic Shift
The AI search startup once predicted advertising would be a massive business. Now it's betting on a smaller, more valuable audience.

trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…

Google rolls out its Veo video model globally within Google Ads, allowing advertisers to create 10-second videos for YouTube from up to three static images (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/google-brings-its…

Google Research details TurboQuant, a quantization algorithm to enable massive compression of LLMs and vector search engines without sacrificing accuracy (Google Research)
https://research.google/blog/turboquant-redefining-ai-efficiency-with-extreme…

TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression

trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…

Google is running a "small" experiment replacing news headlines in search results with AI-generated ones, after adding the feature in Google Discover in January (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/googl

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines
Google is beginning to replace news headlines in its search results with ones that are AI-generated. After AI clickbait nonsense in its Google Discover news feed, it’s starting to mess with headlines in the “10 blue links” too.

lastfm_aminer: Last.fm social graph
This network contains the social graph of last.fm, a site that provides a streaming radio service, where users can search music and get personalized recommendation. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i follows user j.
This network has 136409 nodes and 1685524 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Google is running a "small" experiment replacing news headlines in search results with AI-generated ones, after adding the feature in Google Discover in January (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/googl

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines
Google is beginning to replace news headlines in its search results with ones that are AI-generated. After AI clickbait nonsense in its Google Discover news feed, it’s starting to mess with headlines in the “10 blue links” too.

lastfm_aminer: Last.fm social graph
This network contains the social graph of last.fm, a site that provides a streaming radio service, where users can search music and get personalized recommendation. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i follows user j.
This network has 136409 nodes and 1685524 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Forbes plans to launch prediction platform Forbes Predict in February; a widget next to articles will allow readers to make forecasts in exchange for tokens (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/forbes-tests-prediction-platfo…

Forbes tests prediction platform as engagement strategies move past search 
Forbes has joined the fray of publishers adding prediction markets to their sites, but as part of a broader strategy to reduce traffic reliance and boost engagement.

Filing: OpenAI petitions the UK CMA to include AI chatbots with search function in Google's mandated default search engine choice screen for Chrome and Android (James Titcomb/Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/03/23…

Qwen releases Qwen3-Max-Thinking, its flagship reasoning model that it says demonstrates performance comparable to models such as GPT-5.2 Thinking and Opus 4.5 (Qwen)
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-max-thinking

Chartbeat: over two years, search traffic fell by 60% for small publishers with 1K-10K daily page views, 47% for medium-sized publishers, and 22% for large ones (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/17/chartbeat-search-traffic-ai-chatbots

Exclusive: Small publishers hit hardest by search traffic declines
Larger publishers with better brand recognition and stronger direct-to-consumer products are more insulated from declines in traditional search traffic.

How Chinese tech companies navigate geopolitical tensions: TikTok and Manus adopted a "China shedding" strategy, while Shein and Meituan seek non-US growth (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/business/tiktok-china-technology.ht…

After TikTok Deal, Chinese Firms Search for a New Global Path
Chinese firms must contend with geopolitical tensions and mistrust to do business in the United States. Some are choosing to avoid the U.S. altogether.

Baidu plans to let users access OpenClaw via its search app and integrate OpenClaw's capabilities into its e-commerce business and other services (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/13/baidu-openclaw-ai-search-app-integratio…

China's Baidu adds OpenClaw AI into search app for 700 million users ahead of Lunar New Year
Chinese search engine operator Baidu plans Friday to start letting smartphone app users to directly tell OpenClaw AI to perform tasks.

Google says it's appealing the US v. Google ruling that found it has an illegal search monopoly and asks a court to pause some of the remedies during the appeal (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/863710/google-search-antitrust-monopoly-ap…

Google is appealing a judge’s search monopoly ruling
Google filed a notice to appeal Judge Amit Mehta’s ruling calling it an illegal search monopolist and requesting to pause some of his ordered remedies.

Sources: Apple is preparing to introduce ads in its Maps app, allowing retailers and brands to bid for ad slots against search queries (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-23/apple-is-set-to…