Wired

Stop Using Your Keyboard and Start Using This Simple, Free Speech-to-Text App

If old sci-fi shows are anything to go by, we're all using our computers wrong. We're still typing with our fingers, like cave people, instead of talking out loud the way the future was supposed to be ...
PC World

Windows search not finding your PDF text? Here’s how to fix it

If you notice that Windows search does not return any PDFs as hits, even though you are sure that your search term appears in such a file, check the search settings. To do this, open the Start menu, ...
Android Authority

Worried that text is a scam? Circle to Search now has your back

Google has introduced a new feature to Circle to Search. You’ll now be able to circle a message to find out if it’s a scam or not. Circling a message will bring up an AI Overview that provides ...
Android

Google Is Merging Circle to Search Directly into Gemini AI Overlay

Google is integrating Circle to Search directly into the Gemini AI overlay, creating a simplified “Circle Screen” feature. Users can now circle on-screen content and query Gemini instantly, merging ...
Android Authority

Circle to Search now lets you have deeper conversations about what's on your screen

Circle to Search’s text search feature now defaults to Google’s AI Mode. Previously, any additional text queries in Circle to Search would default to the standard image search. The feature was teased ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Azure Cosmos DB Adds New AI Search and Agentic Capabilities at Ignite

Microsoft used Ignite 2025 to push Azure Cosmos DB further into AI search and agentic workflows, highlighting new capabilities aimed at developers building retrieval-heavy applications and multi-agent ...
Search Engine Land

3 common mistakes to avoid when investing in AI search

SEO is at an inflection point due to the rise of LLMs as search platforms. This has led to a lot of contradictory information about how we should approach LLMs and whether we should even continue to ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
Search Engine Land

Google Ads’ new text guidelines feature begins rolling out

Advertisers can now guide Google’s AI to create text assets that align with brand tone, messaging, and compliance standards. Google is starting to roll out its new Text Guidelines feature in Google ...
BGR

AI Mode Knows When You Want Images Instead Of Text, And It Might Be A Game-Changing Google Search Feature

The AI Mode experience is easily one of the best AI products Google rolled out to Google Search. It's like having a chatbot (think ChatGPT or Gemini) in a dedicated tab in Google Search ready to ...
Tom's Guide

I ditched Google for Perplexity for a month — and I don't think I can go back

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