Update: Added Wikimedia Foundation's statement below and made a correction to denote it was only the Meta-Wiki that was vandalized. The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a ...

Google is apparently having trouble identifying paywalled content due to a standard way paywalled content is handled by publishers like news sites. It’s asking that publishers with paywalled content ...

Google has added new guidance to the "Fix Search-related JavaScript problems" help document, specifically addressing JavaScript-based paywalls. This is currently listed as number 10 here, and says: If ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Caroline Castrillon covers career, entrepreneurship and women at work. The recent bankruptcy filings of Monster and CareerBuilder ...

In a nutshell: Google recently confirmed that JavaScript is now required for users to submit queries to its web search service. According to a company spokesperson, the new requirement will improve ...

Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript, the widely used programming language to make web pages interactive, in order to use Google Search. In ...

Over-reliance on JavaScript creates a blind spot for AI search crawlers. AI search crawlers reportedly can't read JavaScript, limiting your site's visibility. Server-side rendering and HTML-first ...

A hot potato: JavaScript is one of the most popular programming languages in the world and a cornerstone of the modern web. JavaScript is also "owned" by Oracle. However, that could soon change with ...

This week ChatGPT announced that the gloves are off and it will be competing with Google on web search. Over the past two decades, this has been the tech equivalent of opening up a ground war in Asia ...

OpenAI on Thursday launched ChatGPT search, positioning the company to better compete with search engines like Google, Microsoft's Bing and Perplexity. In July, OpenAI announced it was beta-testing a ...

Don’t know something? Don’t “Google” it — “TikTok” it. The kids these days are abandoning the trusty search engine in favor social media and other unorthodox means of online research. Pulling data ...

A set of 2,500 internal documents, including some related to search, call into question past statements made by the company. A set of 2,500 internal documents, including some related to search, call ...