ZDNET key takeaways If you want to abandon Google, you can install your own search engine.YaCy is a free, decentralized search engine that can be installed locally.YaCy can be installed on Linux, ...

Google keeps adding more and more clutter to its search product, from ads to AI. You can kind of work around this by disabling AI search results or even ditching Google for an alternative. But what if ...

You can change your default search engine in Google Chrome by heading to your Settings menu on desktop or mobile.

Part of the reason Google decided to start developing its own Chrome browser—all the way back in 2008—was to funnel people toward all of its web apps, from Google Docs to Gmail to Google Maps. And of ...

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The artificial intelligence startup Perplexity announced today it is making Comet, its AI-powered search engine, free for all users worldwide.

Google is the default search engine on Chrome; that means when you search for any query, your results will be shown in the Google search engine. Chrome allows you to manually change your search engine ...