Cortana, Microsoft’s competitor to Google Now and Apple’s Siri is a virtual assistant that not only takes the stage, but attempts to steal it. Cortana brings new features to the table, including ...

To develop Cortana, Microsoft apparently spoke to a number of “real personal assistants” and learned that they kept track of the interests and preferences of their bosses in a notebook. So Microsoft ...

The Justice Department said it plans to appeal a judge’s decision that blocked the government from searching Post reporter ...

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The House Ethics Committee is investigating a Texas congressman over allegations that include having an affair with an aide.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. The Google Discover core update from February 2026 has ...

See how long-tail Google Search Console queries reveal AI-style prompts, plus a regex trick and ways to turn raw data into tracking insights.

Google's Gary Illyes clarifies why resource hints do not influence Googlebot's crawling behavior, and notes that HTML ...

The judge compared allowing the government to search the devices to "leaving the government's fox in charge of the Washington Post's henhouse." ...

Microsoft's Copilot Tasks shifts AI from chat to action, silently handling everything from apartment hunting to canceling subscriptions while you focus on other things. The post Microsoft’s new ...

A federal judge has, for now, barred the Justice Department from searching the electronic devices of a Washington Post reporter that were seized by the FBI last month, ruling instead that the court ...

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