Dan was a writer on CNET's How-To and Thought Leadership teams. His byline has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, NBC News, Architectural Digest and elsewhere. He is a crossword junkie and is ...

This week on Gadget Lab, we talk about how content on the open web is being used to train AI-powered search tools, and how content publishers are fighting to reverse this trend. Web crawling—the act ...

Google has launched a new Search Labs experiment called Web Guide. It uses a custom version of Gemini AI and a fan-out technique to group search results by topic for better discovery and organization.