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Search Engines News 18 June 2025 - 21 October 2025

OpenAI Unveils ChatGPT Atlas Browser — Google Shares Tumble in AI Search Showdown

OpenAI Unveils ChatGPT Atlas Browser — Google Shares Tumble in AI Search Showdown

Atlas Browser: ChatGPT at the Helm OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas is more than a re-skin of Chrome. According to Bloomberg and Verge reports, the new browser is built around ChatGPT bloomberg.com theverge.com. In the launch livestream, CEO Sam Altman emphasized that he sees a chat-based browser as the future of the web theverge.com. The Verge notes that OpenAI staff literally called ChatGPT the beating heart of Atlas” theverge.com. In practice, Atlas keeps a ChatGPT pane visible as a companion” at all times: by default clicking a search result opens a split-screen showing the webpage and ChatGPT’s transcript theverge.com. Employees demonstrated several
21 October 2025
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I Replaced Google Search with AI for a Week — Here’s What Really Happened

I Replaced Google Search with AI for a Week — Here’s What Really Happened

Over seven days, the author replaced Google with AI as the sole search tool, using ChatGPT with built-in web search, plus Bing Chat and Perplexity, and banned Google queries. AI search delivers a single conversational answer with citations and no ads, instead of Google’s cluttered list of blue links. The AI maintained conversation context, enabling multi-step tasks like planning a dinner date by combining restaurant suggestions and showtimes in one thread. In terms of speed, AI often saved time on straightforward queries—for example, a 45-pound child’s car seat weight was answered in about 15 seconds. For real-time updates, AI lagged
29 July 2025
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Google Search’s 2025 Revolution: AI Breakthroughs, Controversies, and the Future of Search

Google Search’s 2025 Revolution: AI Breakthroughs, Controversies, and the Future of Search

Google launched the Search Generative Experience (SGE) in May 2023, an AI-driven results format that places an AI-generated snapshot at the top of the page using PaLM-era models and later Gemini. Google introduced the Knowledge Graph in 2012, a semantic database powering knowledge panels with over 500 billion facts about more than 5 billion entities. By 2025 Google processes more than 5 trillion searches per year (about 14 billion per day), and it holds a global market share around 90% plus, with mobile searches accounting for over 60% in the U.S. and over 93% globally. From 2023 to 2025 Google
16 July 2025
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Perplexity AI: The $14B AI Answer Engine Challenging Google and ChatGPT

Perplexity AI: The $14B AI Answer Engine Challenging Google and ChatGPT

Perplexity AI launched its flagship search engine product on December 7, 2022, founded by Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, and Andy Konwinski. Its tech uses a retrieval+generation architecture that performs live web searches and generates answers with inline citations, with Sonar, a modified version of Meta’s Llama 3, as the default model and support for GPT-3.5-turbo, GPT-4-turbo, Claude and other engines. The platform provides concise, sourced answers, supports multimodal inputs such as images and code, allows file uploads, and includes an Internal Knowledge Search for Pro users with up to 500 private files. It operates on a freemium model
7 July 2025
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AI and the Transformation of Web Search (2024–2030)

AI and the Transformation of Web Search (2024–2030)

Google introduced the Search Generative Experience (SGE) in 2023–2024, using the Gemini AI model to produce top-of-page AI overviews with citations. After limited trials, Google rolled out AI overviews to all U.S. users in 2024 and aims to reach over a billion people by year’s end, with ads remaining separate and publisher traffic preserved. Gemini’s multimodal abilities enable searches by image or video, including experiments where a user can upload a video clip and the AI analyzes it to troubleshoot a device. Microsoft launched Bing with a GPT-4-powered chat in early 2023, integrated via the Prometheus framework to use the
18 June 2025
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