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 ...

I replaced Google Search with DuckDuckGo and Perplexity - my results were noticeably better ...

“Search engine optimization as we knew it is over,” says one AI guru. But what’s not over, she says, is how you get found online. These words were uttered by Susan Frew, an entrepreneur, corporate ...

Google is still king, but it is no longer the best tool when I want to wander.

Search engines now rely on AI-driven systems that continuously evaluate authority, freshness, and first-party signals to decide which sources are trusted and used in answers. Search has not become ...

Google's latest AI overhaul has finally killed the search bar, so here's what you should switch to instead ...