A new study shows LinkedIn is now the second-most-cited source for AI search engines, influencing how professionals and companies are described before direct contact. The findings reveal AI favors ...

Everyone’s been watching the wrong pipe. The synthetic content is already in the retrieval layer, and the answer engines are ...

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google Ads is replacing DSAs with AI Max. Google ...

Google has now set 2029 as its internal deadline to transition critical systems away from vulnerable cryptographic algorithms.

As generative AI companies search for cleaner training data, one of the internet's oldest institutions is quietly changing its economic model. The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, has ...

Google launched four official and confirmed algorithmic updates in 2025, three core updates and one spam update. This is in comparison to last year, in 2024, where we had seven confirmed updates, then ...

Search engines have evolved significantly from basic keyword matching to intelligent systems leveraging artificial intelligence (AI). This transformation prompts an important question: when it comes ...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Monday launched an online encyclopedia, named Grokipedia, that he said was fueled by artificial intelligence and designed to be closer to his conservative political views ...

Wikipedia's human pageviews declined 8% over last year. Wikimedia Foundation attributes the trend to generative AI and social media. Bot detection was updated after unusually high traffic. Wikimedia ...

Over at the official blog of the Wikipedia community, Marshall Miller untangled a recent mystery. “Around May 2025, we began observing unusually high amounts of apparently human traffic,” he wrote.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...