Google’s nightmare: How a search spinoff could remake the web Google has shaped the Internet as we know it, and unleashing its index could change everything.

Many of Google’s AI rivals will have been disappointed to see the tech giant escape largely unscathed from its first major antitrust battle with the U.S. government. Despite concluding Google had ...

As regulators seek ways to curb the company’s power, there is more focus on the vast index — hundreds of billions of web pages — behind its search engine.

Google has started to use the mobile version of the web as their primary search engine index. A search engine index is a collection of pages/documents that the search engine has discovered ...

Google Inc. will stop boasting on its home page about the number of Web pages it has stored in its index, even as the online search engine leader continues a crusade to prove it scans ...

Google has placed in its index an estimated 35 trillion Web pages across the Internet worldwide. While this is an amazing statistic, believe it or not, 35 trillion is barely the tip of the iceberg.

Judge Amit P. Mehta's opinion emphasizes how the rise of AI search has opened new competitive possibilities and saved Google from the DOJ's most onerous requests.

Google is dividing its index — the almost infinite database of websites it stores for search — into separate mobile and desktop versions. There will be winners and losers in this process ...

Google has just unveiled a "secret project" of "next-generation architecture for Google's web search". This new architecture appears to include crawling, ...

For years and years Google has told us they don't index all the content and URLs they know about on the web. No just because there is a directive telling them not to but because Google chooses not ...

Google announced this morning its "mobile-first" indexing of the web is now starting to roll out, after a year and a half of testing and experimentation.

Google's John Mueller said a word I kind of dislike, "impossible." But technically it is true. He said, it would be impossible for Google to index the whole web. This was in response to why Google ...