9to5 Google: New Google Search setting saves images and audio you upload; how to turn it off. “Google says it’s saving files and media uploaded during searches in user search history to train AI and improve the experience after announcing the change last month. Search history will include pictures, screenshots taken with Circle to Search, and audio files used in voice searches, but you can […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/23/new-google-search-setting-saves-images-and-audio-you-upload-how-to-turn-it-off-9to5-google/

MakeUseOf: 6 search engines that find the internet that Google forgot. “To discover those quaint little corners of the internet that don’t make it onto page one of Google, I tried these lesser-known search engines, and what I discovered was a completely different internet.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/23/makeuseof-6-search-engines-that-find-the-internet-that-google-forgot/

Futurism: Google’s AI Overviews Feature Is Telling Users That SCP Horror Fiction Entities Are Real. “As the lore goes, the SCP Foundation is a non-government organization that collects and contains supernatural discoveries. Writers catalogue these fictional phenomena — which range from the terrifying to the downright bizarre — in the form of fake records, studies, research documents, and […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/23/futurism-googles-ai-overviews-feature-is-telling-users-that-scp-horror-fiction-entities-are-real/

PressGazette: Biggest UK local newsbrands: Reach sites worst hit after Google algorithm changes. “The majority of the UK’s largest local news websites have seen a decline in audience and minutes spent with their content in the past year, according to Ipsos iris data. Among the 75 biggest local news titles in the UK, just 16 grew their audience year on year in April while 15 increased the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/22/biggest-uk-local-newsbrands-reach-sites-worst-hit-after-google-algorithm-changes-pressgazette/

Nicolas Bouliane: AI is killing All About Berlin. “This is the traffic to All About Berlin, the website that I run since 2017, and live from since 2020. After 7 years of growth, it has lost 70% of its traffic to Google AI Overviews. When you Googled something, you used to get a link to my website. Now you get a page of ads, then an AI-generated answer trained on my content, then finally a link […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/21/nicolas-bouliane-ai-is-killing-all-about-berlin/

David Bushell: Google just spat in my face. “AI peddlers like Google have made one thing abundantly clear: their product will take your skills. It will take your profession. It will dehumanise you and you’ll pay for it.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/21/david-bushell-google-just-spat-in-my-face/

Search Engine Roundtable: Bing Tests Updated News Design In Search. “Microsoft Bing is testing a new updated design for the news section within Bing Search. The updated news box, honestly, is easier to understand and makes it clearer that these are news sources – so I kind of like it.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/21/search-engine-roundtable-bing-tests-updated-news-design-in-search/

The Privacy Dad’s Blog: Interview with the Engineer of Uruky, a Private Search Engine. “Bruno reached out to me mid-April with a suggestion to check out his privacy-first search engine tool Uruky. Uruky works on a subscription model, but one of my kids and I were able to test it out for free for a couple of months.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/20/the-privacy-dads-blog-interview-with-the-engineer-of-uruky-a-private-search-engine/

The Register: Brit competition cops order Google to make search rankings less mysterious. “The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has imposed two new conduct requirements for Google’s search services, to improve transparency and fairness in result rankings and allowing users to port their search data to third parties.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/19/the-register-brit-competition-cops-order-google-to-make-search-rankings-less-mysterious/

Tip of the day: #DEVONagent’s web browser lets you view websites you have found without having to switch applications. And while it may not have all the features of major browsers, it has a very handy one: inspectors, which provide some additional information about the site. #productivity #research #tipoftheday #websearch https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20250211-devonagent-browser-inspectors