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The classic search engine Ask Jeeves has been shut down

The classic search engine, known in recent years as Ask.com, apparently couldn't keep up with the competition from new AI tools.

By Mikael Markander

6 May 20261 min

InternetMarketsTechnology Industry

Articles

Attention online retailers! Bot shoppers are about to change everything

Over the next couple of years, automated bot shoppers are likely to start replacing human shoppers. And that’s going to force retailers to shift sales tactics to be successful.

By Evan Schuman

12 Aug 2025 6 mins

E-commerce ServicesE-commerce SoftwareRetail Industry

AI slop is eating the world

From search results to videos to music to reviews, fake content is flooding the internet. Every service with search needs a switch that turns that stuff off — or we’ll drown in digital dreck.

By Mike Elgan

25 Jul 2025 6 mins

Generative AIInternetTechnology Industry

Increasingly common to use Chat GPT instead of Google

One in four people surveyed by Adobe Express say OpenAI's ChatGPT is now their first choice for search.

By Mikael Markander

25 Jul 2025 2 mins

Generative AIInternetProductivity Software

Google finally gets strict about web server certificates

The Web cert world has undergone a lot of change this year, and Google has now set a June 2026 deadline for being even stricter about which certificates can be used for which functions.

By Evan Schuman

8 Jul 2025 4 mins

Browser SecurityBrowsersGoogle

The Future of Connectivity: Wi-Fi 6 and Smart Homes Explained

Wi-Fi 6 promises a huge opportunity for better experience and lower TCO - provided CSPs are ready for it

By Plume

9 Apr 2021 4 mins

InternetMobile Device Management

Passkeys: How they work, how to use them

Passkeys may be the future, but they sure can be bewildering — especially in a business context. Here are straightforward answers to all your pressing passkey questions.

By JR Raphael

7 Jul 2025 13 mins

Identity and Access ManagementInternetNetwork Security

That ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ tried to tie genAI deregulation to broadband funding

It boiled down to whether your state would allow generative AI companies to get away with whatever they want — if not, there would have been no broadband funding for you!

By Steven Vaughan-Nichols

1 Jul 2025 5 mins

Generative AIGovernmentLaws and Regulations

AI regulation freeze could fracture US digital future

As a vote in the US Senate over BEAD and a 10-year ban on state AI regulations moves ever closer, state officials band together to try and stop it.

By Paul Barker

28 Jun 2025 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceInternetLaws and Regulations

GenAI crawler problem highlights a bigger issue: the cloud bandwidth nightmare

Online generative AI robots that scrape content and ignore websites’ ‘Do Not Enter ‘signs can cost enterprises a lot of money. But the underlying issue is how those bandwidth charges are calculated.

By Evan Schuman

14 May 2025 5 mins

Generative AIInternetNetworking

Attack of the AI crawlers

Unlike their search engine counterparts, scraper bots in search of content for genAI model training often go where site owners tell them not to go. Some sites are getting hit millions of times and incurring massive bandwidth charges. What can IT do?

By Evan Schuman

5 May 2025 8 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AIInternet

Agentic AI might soon get into cryptocurrency trading — what could possibly go wrong?

Two powerhouse technologies, agentic AI and blockchain — could be combined to create the next generation of secure, autonomous, and decentralized Web3 apps — opening the crypto world to a whole new group of traders.

By Lucas Mearian

15 Apr 2025 12 mins

BlockchainCryptocurrencyData and Information Security