… For most of its 30-year history, however, it’s been overshadowed by other search products, especially Google. Holding company IAC acquired Ask Jeeves in 2005, quickly dropped “Jeeves” from the name, and by 2010 had scaled back its search product to refocus on Q&A. …
… At launch, OpenSearch Serverless will integrate natively with AI development platforms like Vercel and Kiro, so developers can deploy production-ready search and vector backends for agents without managing infrastructure. …
… While Rufus focused on helping customers discover and compare products, Alexa for Shopping is meant to provide more personalized recommendations and automate the shopping experience across Amazon and other online retailers. …
… The launch comes as conversational AI platforms increasingly evolve into discovery and recommendation engines for consumers researching products, services, and software. …
… That doesn’t always make emails easy to find, however, especially if the search term is something found across several messages. “Gmail Live can answer naturally phrased questions, respond to follow-up questions, and pivot if you need to interrupt it,” Devanshi Bhandari, product lead for Gmail, exp… …
… Called Comet , the company’s new product acts as a chatbot-based search engine, and can perform actions like summarizing emails, browsing web pages, and performing tasks such as sending calendar invites. …
… During Google’s search antitrust trial in 2023, DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg testified that Google’s exclusive default search contracts harmed its ability to pitch itself as the default on other browsers. “Google is force-feeding AI with no way to opt out,” Weinberg said Tuesday in a statement, … …
… Lately, dictation apps such as Wispr Flow, Monologue, and Aqua have built this functionality into their voice-based typing products. Earlier this month, Google released its own dictation product called Rambler , which is built into Gboard and works across apps. …
… After years of essentially being the only player in the category, the seven-year-old startup is accelerating its growth as tech giants enter the enterprise AI search market with rival products. “The first four or five years of our existence, we had no competition,” Glean CEO Arvind Jain told TechCr… …
… Google is using Antigravity’s coding chops in consumer products like Search, where users will get a custom UI generated in real time as part of an answer. Here, users will be able to build mini-apps while exploring a topic within search, the company said. …
