It's hard to imagine life without Google. The internet as we know it is built around search engines, and Google is the biggest of them all. In 2024, Google was the primary search engine for 76% of ...

Shares of Google parent Alphabet Inc. tanked more than 7% on Wednesday after a senior Apple executive signaled that the iPhone maker was looking at search engine alternatives for its Safari web ...

We’ve all overslept an alarm or missed a deadline, but has it ever cost you $20 billion? According to Ars Technica, it may have just happened to Apple, which apparently suffered from some decision ...

A former Google exec thinks Microsoft should outbid Google to land the default iPhone search spot – even if Microsoft makes no money from it.

A Reddit report says Apple will allow iPhone uses in Japan to choose a search engine besides Google after installing iOS 26.2 for the first time. The company will allegedly allow users to choose from ...

Logan Kilpatrick, lead product manager for Google, said on Friday that Google’s AI Mode will be the “default” search experience for Google Search “soon.” We know Google said AI Mode is the future of ...

In 2020, the Justice Department, joined by a group of states, accused Google of illegally stifling competition by paying the makers of web browsers and phones to set Google as their default search ...

Searches in Safari browser fell last month, Apple executive testifies U.S. regulators seek ban on Google's $20 billion yearly payment for default search position Apple could add OpenAI, Perplexity as ...

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 ...