Generative AI is infiltrating everything you do online, including how you find information. If you're bored with traditional search, check out the top AI search engines we've tried.

For many people Google is search — they’ve simply never considered an alternative. But there are plenty of search engines other than Google, offering benefits such as increased privacy, environmental ...

SearXNG users are the tinkers and testers of the private-search world. Many of them self-host SearXNG, a meta-search front end that can query dozens of engines while stripping identifiers, filtering ...

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Google cofounder Larry Page had a vision for search engines 25 years ago that sounds eerily close to what its AI product ...

Google Search may still be the search engine to rule them all, but it’s no longer the best way to find content online. There’s a plethora of AI search engines and platforms that, I’d argue, do a much ...

The search engine has been a key Internet tool since the early days. Before the Web was a thing, I fondly remember Archie (from “archive” without the “v”), which indexed filenames on FTP servers, ...

The shift from traditional search engines to AI-powered answer engines signals more than a technical upgrade. It marks a fundamental change in how people discover, evaluate, and act on information.

After making the decision to ditch Google Search a few months ago, I’ve been making it a point to keep an eye out for new products to try. Amusingly, it took me quite a while to realize there are ...