Annoyed by AI summaries taking over your search results page? There's no official way to turn them off, but there are a few tricks you can try to stop seeing them so often.

Apophenia is the mind’s tendency to find meaning in randomness. It shapes creativity, emotion, and misunderstanding, ...

Dijkstra is a legend in computer science and his algorithm, which he published in 1959, predates packet switching by a few ...

Google has rolled out fewer confirmed search ranking updates in 2025, then it did in all the past years where Google confirmed these updates. Google rolled out only four confirmed updates in 2025, ...

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 ...

Spotify Technology SA will begin testing a new feature that allows users to type an idea for a playlist into the app and receive a unique set of songs based on their historical taste and behavior. The ...

I am seeing some signs of a Google search ranking update over the past day or so but the chatter is super limited right now. Many of the tools spike yesterday but like I said, the SEO community ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

Researchers at the University of Kent, UK, introduced LiteRBS (Lightweight and Rapid Bidirectional Search), a novel grid-based pathfinding algorithm designed for efficient and scalable navigation in ...

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 ...

In an interview with Harvard Law Today, Noah Giansiracusa explains how companies deploy what some call "dynamic" or “surveillance pricing,” using individual customers' data as a primary algorithmic ...