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Google Search is a search engine created and developed by [[Google|Google LLC]]

Google Search is a search engine created and developed by [[Google|Google LLC]]. It was released on September 27th, 1998.

==Consumer-impact summary==

===User Privacy===

Google Search stores long-term cookies to save user's preferences, something that has raised privacy concerns.

===User Freedom===

Some features such as disabling AI overview or AI mode cannot be disabled.

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===Integration of ads in the search engine===

The search engine didn't have any ads at the beginning, but since October 2000, Google integrated ads at the top of the search results, being easily differenciable from regular search links. Over time, the platform has modified the hyperlink ads appearence to disguise them better as regular links.

Since 2000, these ads appeared at first in a yellow section, highlighting the hyperlinks inside that section were ads {{Citation needed}}. Later this was modified, and the yellow section was removed and hyperlinks that were ads showed a small "ad" label next to them {{Citation needed}}. In 2022, these labels were removed, and a "Sponsored" section was created. Links in this section have a similar appearence to links that are not ads. <ref>{{Cite web |publisher=ScaleUp Marketing Solutions |date=18 Oct 2022 |title=The word "ad" will no longer appear in Google search advertising, and company names and logos will also be added |url=https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/word-ad-longer-appear-google-search-advertising- |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260522031237/https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/word-ad-longer-appear-google-search-advertising- |archive-date=2026-05-22 |access-date=22 May 2026 |website=LinkedIn}}</ref>

===Priorization of showing AI-generated content in Search results===

===Priorization of showing sites with AI-generated content in Search results===

On January 30th 2026, Louis Rossmann uploaded a video on [[YouTube]] <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II2QF9JwtLc</ref> evidencing how Google Search SEO (Search Engine Optimization) has been modified to penalize web sites that do not contain AI-generated text. On February 12, he uploaded another video, showing how he managed to make his website the first on the search results page by adding AI-generated text to the site. <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uKZ84zwJI0</ref>

===Presence of malicious websites on search results===

===AI Overview===

===AI Overview (2023)===

In May 2023, Google announced Search Generative Experience (SGE) for Google Search. AI Overview was released in May 2024 in the US. This feature appears at the top of search results, showing an AI-generated summary of the search.

It has been critiziced for giving false information due to [[wikipedia:Hallucination_(artificial_intelligence)|hallucinations]] that even involded into suggesting to perform harmful activities. There's also criticism for its energy and resource consumption and how these summaries prevent people to access to web sites in order to get the information.

===AI Mode===

There's no official method to completely disable AI Overview. However, users have discovered that including offensive words in search prompts prevents the Overview summary to appear {{Citation needed}}.

===AI Mode (2025)===

===Additional AI integrations in Google Search (2026)===

==Lawsuit==

===United States vs. Google (2020)===

==See also==

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-Google Search is a search engine created and developed by [[Google|Google LLC]]
+Google Search is a search engine created and developed by [[Google|Google LLC]]. It was released on September 27th, 1998.
 ==Consumer-impact summary==
 ===User Privacy===
+Google Search stores long-term cookies to save user's preferences, something that has raised privacy concerns.
 ===User Freedom===
 Some features such as disabling AI overview or AI mode cannot be disabled.
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 ===Integration of ads in the search engine===
+The search engine didn't have any ads at the beginning, but since October 2000, Google integrated ads at the top of the search results, being easily differenciable from regular search links. Over time, the platform has modified the hyperlink ads appearence to disguise them better as regular links.
+Since 2000, these ads appeared at first in a yellow section, highlighting the hyperlinks inside that section were ads {{Citation needed}}. Later this was modified, and the yellow section was removed and hyperlinks that were ads showed a small "ad" label next to them {{Citation needed}}. In 2022, these labels were removed, and a "Sponsored" section was created. Links in this section have a similar appearence to links that are not ads. <ref>{{Cite web |publisher=ScaleUp Marketing Solutions |date=18 Oct 2022 |title=The word "ad" will no longer appear in Google search advertising, and company names and logos will also be added |url=https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/word-ad-longer-appear-google-search-advertising- |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260522031237/https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/word-ad-longer-appear-google-search-advertising- |archive-date=2026-05-22 |access-date=22 May 2026 |website=LinkedIn}}</ref>
-===Priorization of showing AI-generated content in Search results===
+===Priorization of showing sites with AI-generated content in Search results===
+On January 30th 2026, Louis Rossmann uploaded a video on [[YouTube]] <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II2QF9JwtLc</ref> evidencing how Google Search SEO (Search Engine Optimization) has been modified to penalize web sites that do not contain AI-generated text. On February 12, he uploaded another video, showing how he managed to make his website the first on the search results page by adding AI-generated text to the site. <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uKZ84zwJI0</ref>
+===Presence of malicious websites on search results===
-===AI Overview===
+===AI Overview (2023)===
+In May 2023, Google announced Search Generative Experience (SGE) for Google Search. AI Overview was released in May 2024 in the US. This feature appears at the top of search results, showing an AI-generated summary of the search.
+It has been critiziced for giving false information due to [[wikipedia:Hallucination_(artificial_intelligence)|hallucinations]] that even involded into suggesting to perform harmful activities. There's also criticism for its energy and resource consumption and how these summaries prevent people to access to web sites in order to get the information.
-===AI Mode===
+There's no official method to completely disable AI Overview. However, users have discovered that including offensive words in search prompts prevents the Overview summary to appear {{Citation needed}}.
+===AI Mode (2025)===
 ===Additional AI integrations in Google Search (2026)===
+==Lawsuit==
+===United States vs. Google (2020)===
 ==See also==