Pastebin comments push ClickFix JavaScript attack to hijack crypto swaps

Threat actors are abusing Pastebin comments to distribute a new ClickFix-style attack that tricks cryptocurrency users into ...
Search Engine Land

Google says don’t use JavaScript to generate a noindex tag in the original page code

Google has updated its JavaScript SEO basics documentation to clarify how Google’s crawler handles noindex tags in pages that use JavaScript. In short, if “you do want the page indexed, don’t use a ...
ZDNet

Google just rolled out Gemini 3 to Search - here's what it can do and how to try it

Gemini 3 has landed. Google embedded the new model into Search. The new Search is available to Google AI and Ultra subscribers. Google just made the biggest change to its search engine since the ...
Fast Company

Thanks to AI, this guy is running a Google rival from his laundry room

Nearly 30 years ago, when Google launched the search engine that started its long march to dominance, its founders started without much hardware. Known at first as Backrub and operated on the Stanford ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Apple Plans AI-Powered Web Search Tool for Siri to Rival OpenAI, Perplexity

Apple Inc. is planning to launch its own artificial intelligence-powered web search tool next year, stepping up competition with OpenAI and Perplexity AI Inc. The company is working on a new system — ...
Searchenginejournal.com

Google Adds Guidance On JavaScript Paywalls And SEO

Google is apparently having trouble identifying paywalled content due to a standard way paywalled content is handled by publishers like news sites. It’s asking that publishers with paywalled content ...
CNET

Ready to Escape Google? Start by Changing Your Phone's Default Search Engine

Jason Chun is a CNET writer covering a range of topics in tech, home, wellness, finance and streaming services. He is passionate about language and technology, and has been an avid writer/reader of ...
KSTP-TV

Ramsey County judge strikes down Minnesota’s binary trigger ban

A Ramsey County district judge on Monday struck down the state’s ban on binary triggers because of how the provision was inserted into a nearly 1,500-page tax omnibus bill. A binary trigger is a gun ...
CNET

AI Is Taking Over Your Search Engine. Here's What It's Doing and Why It Matters

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 ...
Business Wire

Elastic Announces Faster Filtered Vector Search with ACORN-1 and Default Better Binary Quantization Compression

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, announced new performance and cost-efficiency breakthroughs with two significant enhancements to its vector search. Users ...
Android Authority

Google Search's AI Mode gets chatty with its new Search Live feature

Google is rolling out a new voice search experience for AI Mode in the Google app for Android and iOS. The new Search Live feature lets you have a natural conversation with Google Search, much like ...
Barron's

Google Search Is Fading. The Whole Internet Is at Risk.

Experience a random pain in the 21st century and an internet search usually comes before a call to the doctor. Googling “chest pain,” “high fever,” or “skin rash” calls up a series of blue links ...