Self-hosting a full search engine is borderline impossible for any one person. Most "self-hosted" search engines are metasearch engines that aggregate results or are based on P2P networks. Their ...

Not happy with the search results provided by Google? Welcome to the club. The solution to your problem could be a custom search engine tailored to your specific needs. The good news is that you can ...

For decades, the way we find information on the internet changed only in small ways. Doing a traditional Google search today doesn't feel all that different from when, in the 1990s, you would Ask ...

Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and utilities category, with a focus on energy-saving advice, thermostats, and heating and cooling. Jon has more than a decade ...

When online search engines first appeared, they seemed miraculous. Now, though? It is a truth near-universally acknowledged that search is in the dumps, corroded by spam and ads. Big players like ...

Khamosh Pathak is a freelance tech journalist with over 13 years of experience writing online. An accounting graduate, he turned his interest in writing and technology into a career. He holds a ...

77% of ChatGPT users say they use it as a search engine. Gen Z leads adoption, with 28% starting their searches in ChatGPT. Nearly one in four ChatGPT users surveyed prefer it over Google. Per a ...

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 ...