Google is making its biggest change to search bar in years
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Google's I/O 2026 keynote scrapped the search box that has anchored the web for 25 years. Bloggers, publishers and freelancers are sounding the alarm.
Traditionally, Google search engine has had a fixed algorithm wherein the user types a query into the search box and Google gives an output displaying a ranked list of links based on the likelihood that those pages carry relevant information. Users then click on these links to explore the range of answers available on the internet.
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