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Kurtz, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld the use of a “reverse keyword” request that led police from a pool of Google searches to a suspect in a 2018 kidnapping and rape, concluding that the data fell under the long‑standing “third‑party doctrine.
A new plus button has appeared in Google Search that allows users to upload images and documents for AI-powered analysis via Google AI Mode. Google has not published an official blog post about the button,
SerpApi and similar firms do fulfill a need, but they sit in a legal gray area. Google does not provide an API for its search results, which are based on the world’s largest and most comprehensive web index.
The plus button is to the left of the Google search bar and, when clicked, opens a menu to upload an image or file. Any questions the user asks about their file are answered conversationally by Gemini, which can offer summaries, explanations, tips, and follow-up questions.
A Google search executive on Thursday pushed back against fears that its AI-powered search will harm web publishers and its advertising business, calling the technology an “expansionary moment” for the internet.
AI Overviews are AI-generated answers to the questions you ask on Google search. Google said AI Overviews would start appearing at the top of Google search starting May 14 whenever Google's search systems determine that these types of AI-generative responses can quickly provide useful information.
Google Search is testing a new plus menu that makes uploading files easier and signals tighter integration with AI Mode and AI Overviews.
YouTube and Google Search faced a widespread outage in India and the US, with Downdetector logging thousands of complaints and no official update yet from Google.
In the past few days, tapping the Pixel Launcher search bar opens a different screen powered by the Google app. This is not a
Google on Friday sued a Texas company that "scrapes" data from online search results, alleging it uses hundreds of millions of fake Google search requests to access copyrighted material and "take it for free at an astonishing scale.