Kagi thinks it's the savior of search engines, promising a world free of #ads and #surveillance, but it's just another flavor of "pay us and we'll tell you what you want to hear." 🙄💸 It's like someone trying to sell you bottled air while you're drowning in a sea of sponsored noise. 🌊📢
https://kagi.com/magic #Kagi #searchengines #digitalprivacy #techcritique #HackerNews #ngated
Kagi - Take back your search

Somewhere along the way, search forgot its job. Today it's AI overviews you can't switch off.

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Search Engine Journal: Claude Is The Fastest-Growing AI Traffic Source, Per New Data. “Claude sent almost four times more referral traffic to websites in April than in January, per new SE Ranking data. That made it the fastest-growing AI traffic source among the five platforms tracked. It’s still the smallest by a wide margin, and it probably isn’t a meaningful line in your analytics yet.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/12/search-engine-journal-claude-is-the-fastest-growing-ai-traffic-source-per-new-data/
Search Engine Journal: Claude Is The Fastest-Growing AI Traffic Source, Per New Data

Search Engine Journal: Claude Is The Fastest-Growing AI Traffic Source, Per New Data. “Claude sent almost four times more referral traffic to websites in April than in January, per new SE Ran…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

أصبح بإمكان مستخدمي تطبيق Brave على أندرويد الآن إضافة محركات بحث مخصصة أو مواقع قابلة للبحث مباشرة من إعدادات التطبيق، مما يعزز مرونة البحث. تتيح هذه الميزة الوصول إلى المحركات المضافة كخيارات بحث سريع عند الكتابة في شريط العناوين. يتوفر هذا التحديث في الإصدار 1.91 الذي بدأ طرحه الأسبوع الماضي، ليوفر تجربة بحث أكثر تخصيصًا وفعالية للمستخدمين.

#Brave #Android #SearchEngines

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/06/12/microsoft-lets-bing-users-turn-off-copilot-ai-answers-xcxwbn/

Microsoft has released a browser extension that turns off Copilot-style search answers while also setting Bing as the browser default.

#AI #Bing #Microsoft #BingSearch #AISearch #MicrosoftCopilot #SearchEngines #MicrosoftEdge #WebBrowsers #Google #GoogleChrome

Starshine's Pages - The Modern Web Is Even Worse In 2026

What's good for Google's investors must also be good for DuckDuckGo (https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/11/why-googles-new-ai-saturated-search-page-will-be-a-disaster/). Seriously, has anyone else switched to DuckDuckGo as their default search engine?
#Google #AI #AISlop #deGoogle #DuckDuckGo #GoogleSearch #platformDecay #searchEngines
Why Google’s New AI-Saturated Search Page Will Be A Disaster

Google didn’t invent full-text search of the Internet – that honor belongs to early pioneers such as WebCrawler, Lycos and AltaVista. But for the last 25 years or so, Google has…

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The Decoder: Landmark German ruling declares Google’s AI Overviews are Google’s own words and makes it liable for false answers. “A German court has ruled that Google is directly liable for what its AI search overviews say. Previous case law shielding search engine operators from liability doesn’t apply to AI overviews. The Regional Court of Munich hit Google with a temporary injunction barring […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/11/the-decoder-landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/
The Decoder: Landmark German ruling declares Google’s AI Overviews are Google’s own words and makes it liable for false answers

The Decoder: Landmark German ruling declares Google’s AI Overviews are Google’s own words and makes it liable for false answers. “A German court has ruled that Google is directly …

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Search Engine Journal: US Publishers Demand Common Crawl Stop Scraping Their Content. “Digital Content Next, a trade body representing US digital publishers, has sent a cease and desist letter to the Common Crawl Foundation. The letter demands Common Crawl stop collecting publisher content and remove material already in its datasets.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/11/search-engine-journal-us-publishers-demand-common-crawl-stop-scraping-their-content/
Search Engine Journal: US Publishers Demand Common Crawl Stop Scraping Their Content

Search Engine Journal: US Publishers Demand Common Crawl Stop Scraping Their Content. “Digital Content Next, a trade body representing US digital publishers, has sent a cease and desist lette…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

I’m writing this on the day that Google died. I know, I know. Google is a thriving company with years...

Check out my weekday daily #blog and read more in my post: Artificial Audience

#Blog #ArtificialIntelligence #FindingPurpose #SearchEngines

https://8clicks.8r4d.com/2026/06/artificial-audience/