Google has rolled out fewer confirmed search ranking updates in 2025, then it did in all the past years where Google confirmed these updates. Google rolled out only four confirmed updates in 2025, ...

Search engines have evolved significantly from basic keyword matching to intelligent systems leveraging artificial intelligence (AI). This transformation prompts an important question: when it comes ...

Researchers at the University of Kent, UK, introduced LiteRBS (Lightweight and Rapid Bidirectional Search), a novel grid-based pathfinding algorithm designed for efficient and scalable navigation in ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Google is giving merchants a new way to hook first-time shoppers. The search giant launched 1st Order Promotions — also known as New Customer Promotions — for Shopping ads, letting brands offer ...

Earlier this year, we took a look at how and why Anthropic’s Claude large language model was struggling to beat Pokémon Red (a game, let’s remember, designed for young children). But while Claude 3.7 ...

Welcome to the artifact repository of OSDI'25 accepted paper: Achieving Low-Latency Graph-Based Vector Search via Aligning Best-First Search Algorithm with SSD! This repository contains the ...

When Google launched the March 2025 core update last week, Google said there will be a series of improvements aimed to help “better surface relevant, satisfying content” from content creators ...