How will the consumer experience benefit from more search innovation on the open web? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and ...

Google privately told a federal court that “the open web is already in rapid decline,” a sharp reversal from its public claims that search traffic is booming — and a stunning admission as the Justice ...

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 ...

Google believes that the open web is already dying as the DOJ wants to break up Google’s ad empire. Google lost this court battle in 2023, and the remedies trial is coming in two weeks. Both the DOJ ...

What’s in store for the open web in 2025? We asked ad tech industry leaders for their predictions. As the open web becomes increasingly saturated with content and new websites, the risk of advertising ...

OMD Worldwide’s Ben Hovaness will be speaking at AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O conference September 23-24 in New York City. Click here to register. Net neutrality activists have long championed the ...

NLWeb starts by offering ChatGPT-level search to any site or app, with just a few lines of code. It’s a new vision for the web. is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of ...

Our 2026 predictions series rolls on apace, and today we’re looking at the future of the open web. What will our experts predict…? As the open web prepares to enter a critical new phase in 2026, one ...

Google said in a legal filing last week that the open web "is already in rapid decline." The company later said this was being misinterpreted and filed a clarification with the court. Google execs ...