Is the web thriving or faltering? Google has an unexpected take in a new legal filing. Google is heading back to court soon in hopes of convincing a judge that it should not have to split up its ad ...

Was it shorthand, or a Freudian slip? Last Friday, Google filed court documents as it battles a breakup of its advertising technology business. In the filing, Google said the open web "is already in ...

In a notable shift from its recent public statements, Google has now acknowledged in a court filing that "the open web is already in rapid decline." The admission, flagged by industry observers and ...

Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, said in May that web publishing is not dying. Nick Fox, VP of Search at Google, said in May that the web is thriving. But in a court document filed by Google on late ...

Google’s I/O 2026 overhaul turns Search into an AI answer engine that keeps users on the results page. Zero-click searches now account for 60 per cent of queries, and publisher traffic is collapsing ...

Google wasn’t around for the advent of the World Wide Web, but it successfully remade the web on its own terms. Today, any website that wants to be findable has to play by Google’s rules, and after ...