Does the superior quality of search results from dominant firms like Google stem primarily from better algorithms or from access to larger volumes of user-generated data?

May 2025 when Airbnb relaunched Experiences and debuted Services like massages and photography, it abruptly ended Category ...

After attending startup accelerator Y Combinator in the summer of 2022, Paffenholz and Gupta spent a couple more years ...

Imad is a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, Imad started his journalism career in 2013 and has amassed bylines with The New York Times, The Washington Post, ...

Google's search antitrust trial ruling is a win for the tech giant, but a loss for many websites. Google was spared from divesting its Chrome browser and other major remedies. It'll have to share ...

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a shake-up of Google's search engine in a crackdown aimed at curbing the corrosive power of an illegal monopoly while rebuffing the U.S. government's attempt to ...

A federal judge today announced what remedies Google faces after the company was found to have a monopoly in online search. On the operating system front, the Justice Department wanted Google to sell ...

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content ...

A federal judge ordered Google to hand over its search results and data to rival companies in a landmark antitrust case Tuesday, following the court’s ruling that the tech company’s online search ...

Judge Amit P. Mehta said the company must hand over some of its search data to rivals, but did not force other big changes the U.S. wanted. By David McCabe David McCabe has covered the Google search ...

Alphabet’s Google must share data with rivals to open up competition in online search, a judge in Washington ruled on Tuesday, while rejecting prosecutors’ bid to make the internet giant sell off its ...

Alphabet’s Google does not have to sell its Chrome web browser but must share some of its search and other data with competitors, a federal judge decided in the Justice Department’s landmark case ...