Google Search's new tab returns only text-based results, dispensing with much of the add-ons Google has built in that are cluttering up its own standard searches.

Luckily, there's a Google "Web" search filter that makes it possible to get only websites in your search results.

Since Google rolled out AI Overviews in May 2024, the percentage of web searches without a click to a news site has jumped ...

Google is increasingly incorporating AI into its search results and burying the web alive in the process, writes John Herrman.

But does a white label Google Search sound so bad? Google has built an unrivaled index of the web, but the way it shows results has become increasingly frustrating.

Google has ended tests of a feature that would have let users open a snapshot of cooking-recipe content directly in web ...

(Note: Google results generally show the most updated version of a web page, but sometimes an out-of-date version appears and Google needs to be told to crawl the page again.) ...

Alongside the debut of AI search in YouTube, Google is expanding its conversational AI tool to more users. This feature was ...

The news of the filter was casually dropped on X by Google's @searchliaison account who stated it's for those who "prefer to just see links to web pages in their search results".

In February 2024, Google removed a practical feature from its search engine: cached web pages. Back then, even when a web page became unavailable, you could browse Google’s cache — essentially ...

And if Google's misguided AI overviews are the main thing standing between you and the search results you want, we have a hack to turn those off.