Google has unveiled'bold' plans to weave artificial intelligence (AI) into its search engine, as it rushes to make up lost ground in the race to change the way we browse the internet. Instead of throwing up a list of links in response to people's searches, the AI will offer a text-generated answer in a similar vain to the hugely popular ChatGPT -- a rival to the tech giant's own chatbot, Bard. It will also allow users to have'conversational' question-and-answer-style chats to get tips on things like travel, recipes, restaurants to visit and shopping. The reimagined interface still involves typing a query into the search bar as normal but links to websites will be pushed down the page beneath the'snapshot answer' generated by AI. It is the biggest revamp in the 25-year history of the world's most popular search engine, which has hardly changed since Google first launched it in 1998. Big changes: Google has unveiled'bold' plans to weave artificial intelligence into its search engine, as it rushes to make up lost ground in the race to change the way we browse the web The reimagined interface still involves typing a query into the search bar as normal but links to websites will be pushed down the page beneath the'snapshot answer' generated by AI But the dramatic overhaul is not without its pitfalls, both in terms of advertising revenue and given that it is a monumental change to the very product that made Google a $1.4 trillion (£1.2 trillion) internet giant.

Giphy is an app in its own right, but most people appear to use it in the context of other services -- as an add-on to Apple's iMessage tool for texting, for example, or as a way to send viral images to coworkers using Slack. In acquiring the company, Facebook signaled Friday it did not plan to change GIHPY's core functionality, pledging it would invest further in content while assuring developers "will continue to have the same access" to the underlying code.

A Russian search engine is being accused of providing an unregulated facial recognition system to members of the public -- violating personal privacy. Experts have slammed the feature as'poor' and'creepy' while dubbing it a'definite privacy concern'. Yandex, much like Google, Bing and other search engines, allows users to input an image and see similar results. But only Yandex, which claims to conduct more than 50 per cent of Russian searches on Android, produces images of the exact same person. MailOnline tested the image search facilities of Yandex, Bing, Google and specialist site TinEye by submitting a photo that was not available online.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was the first show on American television to use the word "Google" as a transitive verb. It was 2002, in the fourth episode of the show's seventh and final season. Buffy, Willow, Xander and the gang are trying to help Cassie, a high school student who cryptically says she's going to die next week. In Buffy's dining room, they search through hard copies of Cassie's medical records and find nothing noteworthy. Willow, tapping away on a thick white iBook, turns to Buffy and asks, "Have you Googled her yet?"