A federal judge orders Google to limit default search deals to one year, in an antitrust effort to open doors for rivals in search and generative AI.

A Google search executive on Thursday pushed back against fears that its AI-powered search will harm web publishers and its advertising business, calling the technology an “expansionary moment” for the internet.

Google announced new “AI-powered configuration” within the Search Console Performance report that lets you ask Search Console to show you a specific report, and Google will “instantly” configure a report for you. This feature is “experimental” and won’t show up for everyone today.

As usual, Google is back with another set of the year’s top trending searches, as well as archived lists for previous years. Just don’t be too surprised when you see 2025 top spots taken up by Charlie Kirk,

Study Breaks Down Differences in Results Between AI Search Engines Like ChatGPT and Google New York City, United States – December 2, 2025 / Search Atlas / Analysis of 18,377 query pairs shows retrieval-based AI systems like Perplexity achieve 43% domain overlap with Google,

Google announced Project Suncatcher earlier this month. CEO Sundar Pichai now says it could begin building data centers in space as soon as 2027.

As Google’s proposed data center project in Botetourt County moves forward, environmental groups and local officials continue to debate the facility’s potential impact on the region’s resources, while residents have concerns.