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How to use Google’s new AI agents to go beyond your standard searches

How to use Google’s new AI agents to go beyond your standard searches

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At the Google I/O 2026 keynote, the tech giant revealed new agentic capabilities in Search, where users can create, customize, and manage multiple AI agents to stay updated on topics of interest. The announcement is part of Google’s larger push toward agentic AI systems that can take initiative and assist with ongoing tasks instead of answering one question at a time. Unlike traditional search tools that respond only when prompted, Google’s information agents are designed to operate continuously in the background, 24/7, helping users stay informed about their interests without needing to repeatedly search for the same information every day. Instead of delivering a list of links, the agents can synthesize information from multiple sources, explain why something matters, compare perspectives, and provide actionable insights. In many ways, the agents represent the next evolution of Google Alerts, the notification service Google launched in 2003. However, these agents are designed to go beyond simple notifications. For instance, someone following the stock market could create an information agent focused on specific companies, share price, or economic trends. …

I tried a file search tool that actually searches inside documents — it changed how I work

I tried a file search tool that actually searches inside documents — it changed how I work

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I like to think I’m fairly organized. I use folders within folders, descriptive filenames, and sometimes even date prefixes when I’m feeling particularly disciplined. For the most part, the system works. Or at least it did until I needed to find something I’d written about eighteen months earlier, a document I could only remember through one stray half-sentence buried somewhere in the middle of it. Despite applying a few simple tweaks that make Windows search better without replacing it, I got nothing useful. I suspect Spotlight on a Mac would’ve reacted with the same indifference. I spent twenty minutes (it could have been more) opening files one by one before giving up entirely. The file was definitely on my computer somewhere, but functionally, it might as well have vanished into the ether. It was that experience, repeated often enough, that sent me down a rabbit hole, and what I found at the end was DocFetcher. It’s free, it’s open source, and it searches inside your files, not just in them. Related How to Find Anything …

‘The Audacity’s Sarah Goldberg searches for the humanity in Silicon Valley

‘The Audacity’s Sarah Goldberg searches for the humanity in Silicon Valley

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When The Audacity star Sarah Goldberg first met with series creator Jonathan Glatzer, he summed up the show in an unexpected fashion: The real-life tech titans whom The Audacity skewers are so focused on creating immortality that they can’t face the fact that everyone — including them — has, at some point in their lives, pooped their pants. SEE ALSO: ‘The Audacity’ tears Silicon Valley a new one: Review That juxtaposition — a “denial of our base humanity,” as Goldberg described it in a Zoom call with Mashable — attracted her to The Audacity‘s warped take on Silicon Valley. In The Audacity‘s ensemble of tech founders, Goldberg’s Dr. JoAnne Felder is the odd person out. She’s a therapist to the Valley’s “billionaire man-children,” a renter in a sea of obscenely wealthy homeowners who don’t care if their Napa house burns down, because they have several other homes to run back to. Due to her outsider status, you might think JoAnne would serve as The Audacity‘s voice of reason. But by the end of the show’s …

Children subjected to ‘humiliating and traumatising’ strip searches | UK News

Children subjected to ‘humiliating and traumatising’ strip searches | UK News

Published by Sam Flores

Too many children are still being subjected to “intrusive and traumatic” strip searches, the Children’s Commissioner has warned. A report from the office of Dame Rachel de Souza has found while the number of police strip searches of children has fallen by more than half in four years, there remain concerns about the use of force in some cases and persistent disparities in how white and black youths are treated. Dame Rachel has said there should be a “much higher threshold” before a child is subjected to a “humiliating and traumatising” strip search. Using data from the first half of 2024, her office estimated a total of 377 strip searches took place that year – down from 854 searches in 2020. That was the year Child Q, a black teenager, was strip-searched in east London while on her period after police wrongly suspected her of carrying cannabis. It did not come to light until a safeguarding report was published in March 2022, sparking protests. The two Metropolitan Police officers involved in searching the 15-year-old were …

Ghost Elephants review: Werner Herzog searches for ghost elephants in stunning new documentary

Ghost Elephants review: Werner Herzog searches for ghost elephants in stunning new documentary

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Environmental anthropologist Kerllen Costa (far left), conservationist Steve Boyes (second left) and Angolan hunter-guides search for ghost elephants, possibly shown below Ariel Leon Isacovitch Ghost Elephants Werner Herzog, Disney+ Film director Werner Herzog has always been drawn to the limits of human knowledge – to the places where science meets myth, where discovery shades into obsession. InGhost Elephants, which premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival, he follows conservationist Steve Boyes in Angola as he searches for a herd of elephants that may or may not exist. It is both a scientific expedition and a philosophical fable that asks what it means to chase a dream that could easily remain just that. The premise is strikingly simple. Boyes believes that there has been a sighting of a group of unusually large elephants, possibly related to the legendary Fnykvi specimen preserved at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC. Named after the engineer and big-game hunter Josef Fnykvi who shot it, it is one of the largest land mammals ever displayed and stands …

Gaza father searches for his children’s remains in the rubble for years | Newsfeed

Gaza father searches for his children’s remains in the rubble for years | Newsfeed

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NewsFeed A father in the Al Bureij camp in Gaza survived an Israeli airstrike but four of his children died. He’s been trying for years to recover their bodies from the rubble, but he can’t do it alone. Six months into the ceasefire, Israel is still refusing to allow heavy equipment into Gaza, leaving an estimated 10,000 people missing under the rubble. Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary reports. Published On 10 Apr 202610 Apr 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Source link

Here’s Why Google Searches for “Bimbofication” Are Surging

Here’s Why Google Searches for “Bimbofication” Are Surging

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Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Searches for “bimbofication” began surging Tuesday, from an average index score of zero to 100 in a single day. Why the sudden interest in hyper-feminine transformation? The answer, improbably, lies in former Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem’s husband, Bryon Noem. Bombshell reporting by none other than the Daily Mail revealed that Bryon Noem harbors a voracious appetite for the voluptuous things in life. The tabloid received “hundreds of messages” between Noem and three models enmeshed in the bimbo fetish scene, where women transform themselves into walking sex dolls via makeup, extremely tight clothes, and aggressive saline injections, usually in their lips and breasts. In the messages, Noem rhapsodized about the women’s bodies, admitting his penchant for “‘huge, huge ridiculous boobs.” The father of three and owner of crop underwriting firm Noem Insurance lavished some $25,000 on these shapely ladies over the course of their relationship, the Mail reported. Those mere flings aren’t why “bimbofication” is trending, …

Turmoil at the CDC continues as the administration searches for a new director : NPR

Turmoil at the CDC continues as the administration searches for a new director : NPR

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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, will continue to also oversee the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention while the administration searches for a permanent director. Nathan Howard/AP hide caption toggle caption Nathan Howard/AP The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is once again searching for a new leader. During the current Trump administration, the embattled agency tasked with protecting the nation’s health has had a Senate-confirmed director for less than a month, and it has lost at least a quarter of its staff due to cuts and attrition. Now the administration is poised to miss a deadline that ensures leadership continuity. Wednesday marks 210 days since the last CDC director Susan Monarez was ousted, which is the limit for how long someone can lead the agency as an acting director, according to the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998. It’s a rule intended to prevent a president from circumventing the Senate confirmation process for positions that require it. “Secretary Kennedy and [senior adviser] Chris Klomp are working with the White …

Google’s AI Searches Love to Refer You Back to Google

Google’s AI Searches Love to Refer You Back to Google

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Google seems to have a Google addiction. If you click on a hyperlink in Google’s chatbot-style search tool, AI Mode, you are likely to be looped into another Google search, according to a new study from SE Ranking, a search engine optimization company. Currently, Google.com is the most commonly linked site in AI Mode. Many website owners and publishers have relied heavily on Google Search as their primary source of visitors and have complained about declines in traffic over the past few years as the tech giant has prominently featured generative AI summaries in search results, through AI Overviews and AI Mode. Liz Reid, Google’s head of Search, has previously disputed reports about traffic declines and described AI tools as driving “highly quality clicks” to these sites. “Even if you’re saying that people click on those citations all the time, well, there’s nothing to click on, because it just takes you to another Google result,” says Mordy Oberstein, an SEO expert and head of brand at SE Ranking. Currently, an estimated 17 percent of total …