Tag: Search

Linkup ships a sparse retriever that trains on one GPU

SPARSEUP packs a 149M-parameter encoder under Apache 2.0 weights and reports 56.4 average nDCG@10 on BEIR-13.

Google trains a diffusion retriever to widen a single search

Google Research has distilled reinforcement-learned retrieval behaviour into a small diffusion model that fans queries out 12 to…

AI Mode turns Google into a trip booking agent

Google's AI Mode can now track flight prices, book hotels, and show travel costs in points and miles.

Keenable scores $26M from Accel for an agent-first web index

A Yandex search veteran's startup raised $26M to build a web index tuned for AI agents.

Google gives publishers a button to collect loyal readers

Google lets publishers embed a button that makes readers mark them as a favorite source.

Google AI answers gain ground as publishers lose traffic

Google AI Overviews now appear in 43 percent of searches, nearly tripling in a year and deepening publisher…