ChatGPT's new web search functionality offers an alternative to Google, allowing it to be set as the default search engine in compatible browsers. Currently, it's available only for Plus and Team ...

Google is the most popular search engine, but not the only one. Many of the upstarts profile themselves on the promise of better respect for our privacy and one of the best known is called Duckduckgo.

Search for content not available on Google using these specialized, off-beat, niche search engines. They can throw up a different set of results, not found on Google.

But Google has argued that it’s easy for people to change their search engine — just as simple as putting a box of cereal back on the store shelf.

Bing, a search engine owned by Microsoft and the most popular after Google’s, accounts for only 6 percent of searches. But the study included a financial incentive for users to switch to Bing ...

The way Google sees it, if you don’t like Google, you can switch the default search engine on your device. But people don’t switch, Google says, because they prefer Google.

Google is moving forward with plans to bring AI chat features to its core search engine as it works to keep pace with a wave of new artificial intelligence tools ...