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Meet Wander, a StumbleUpon-inspired tool for discovering the ‘small web’

As search becomes increasingly dominated by AI summaries and commercial content, people are experimenting and coming up with ways to make the web feel more human like it used to, building everything ...

DuckDuckGo makes its ‘no-AI’ search engine easier to access as its traffic booms

Alternative search engine DuckDuckGo launches 'no AI' web extensions for Chrome and Firefox users.
Opinion

I found an easy way to automatically keep AI out of my search results - and it works in nearly every browser

I found an easy way to automatically keep AI out of my search results - and it works in nearly every browser ...

DuckDuckGo Makes AI-Free Search Easier To Set as Default

DuckDuckGo’s No AI search extensions let Chrome and Firefox users set an AI-free default as IT teams weigh search controls, ...
Opinion

Google Search Goes Agentic—and Doesn’t Need You Anymore

Vibe-coded results! Super widgets! Bots that never sleep! Google’s vision for the future of Search is hyper-personalized, automated, and extremely AI.

Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years

Using a new Gemini A.I. model, the tech giant is overhauling its search box dimensions to answer longer queries, adding a video-generation tool and simplifying online shopping.