Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think.

For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On T [...]

Nimble claims its new, domain-specialized Web Search Agents cut token costs in half while boosting retrieval accuracy

Nimble, a New York City-based tech startup VentureBeat previously covered for its efforts to re-invent web search for enterprises by using multiple AI agents to improve accuracy and depth, is taking a [...]

Google’s new Deep Research and Deep Research Max agents can search the web and your private data

Google on Monday unveiled the most significant upgrade to its autonomous research agent capabilities since the product's debut, launching two new agents — Deep Research and Deep Research Max †[...]

How to turn off Google’s AI Overviews in web searches

Google’s AI Overviews do not save me time. For one, I work for a tech blog and am therefore professionally curious as to whether or not the generated answers are correct, so I spend a few ticks figu [...]

The Clicks co-founder explains who its tiny Communicator phone is for

Clicks is an apologetically gadgety company, making gear that feels charmingly out-of-place in a world where almost every smartphone out there is an all-screen slab. That was obviously two years ago w [...]

How I Get Free Traffic from ChatGPT in 2025 (AIO vs SEO)

Three weeks ago, I tested something that completely changed how I think about organic traffic. I opened ChatGPT and asked a simple question: "What's the best course on building SaaS with Wor [...]

1.5 billion people see Google's AI Overviews each month

Google just touted some big numbers regarding its AI Overviews feature during its I/O conference. On the stage, company CEO Sundar Pichai said that the service has 1.5 billion monthly users. That' [...]

Tech’s biggest losers in 2024

The tricky thing about naming the year’s biggest losers in tech is that in 2024, it once again felt like everyone lost. Amid the depressing spiral that is social media, the will-they-or-won’t-they [...]

Google: Actually, AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

Last month, a Pew Research Center report shed light on Google's AI Overviews' effect on web publishing. In short, the analysis painted an abysmal outlook for anyone relying on web traffic. B [...]