Jens Oliver Meiert: Releasing Searcher, a Configurable, Privacy-Minded Chromium Extension to Trigger Random Searches. “As part of my brand-new IA Defensa family of mini defense tools, Searcher Chromium is a configurable and extensible browser extension that automatically enters and can trigger searches on Google, Amazon, and almost any other site with a search field. The capability makes it […]

Times of India: Aravind Srinivas’s Perplexity AI faces lawsuit over sharing users’ data without consent; company responds. “Perplexity AI has been accused of sharing user data with major tech companies – Google and Meta without proper consent. According to a report by Bloomberg, a lawsuit has been filed against Perplexity AI, led by CEO Aravind Srinivas accusing the company of allowing […]

Search Engine Land: ChatGPT ads are showing up – a lot. “In a test of 500 questions across the mobile app, roughly one in five questions in a new conversation thread triggered an ad at the bottom of ChatGPT’s response — always as a website link button, always tailored to the topic of the question.”

You know what I miss? Empty search results. It’s SO annoying not to find what I am looking for, because the #searchEngines decided to return the results for ‘similar’ search terms.

#webSearch #enshittification

LibreChat: A Free, Self-Hostable AI Interface Weaving Together Diverse AI Models

LibreChat, a free AI tool, now lets you search the web and create images. It works with many AI models and is easy to set up at home.

#LibreChat, #AItools, #OpenSource, #WebSearch, #ImageGeneration

https://newsletter.tf/librechat-adds-web-search-and-image-tools/

LibreChat now includes web search and image creation, similar to popular AI tools, but you can host it yourself for free.

#LibreChat, #AItools, #OpenSource, #WebSearch, #ImageGeneration
https://newsletter.tf/librechat-adds-web-search-and-image-tools/

Search Engine Journal: Google Begins Rolling Out March 2026 Core Update. “Google has begun rolling out the March core update, according to the Google Search Status Dashboard.”

Search Engine Roundtable: Google AI Mode Tests Changing Some Links To Overlay Cards – Reducing Clicks. “Google is testing changing out some of the links within AI Mode to show as overlay cards, instead of take you directly to the website it is mentioning. This obviously will result in fewer direct clicks to those websites.”