Daily Search Forum Recap: February 25, 2026

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google had a brief serving outage with Google Search ...

Sick of AI in Search? These 7 Google alternatives still put links first

Here's a short list of search engines I recommend that don't push AI and instead go the old-school route with actual website results.

Police are finding suspects based on their online searches as courts weigh privacy concerns

Privacy advocates see it as giving police “unfettered access to the thoughts, feelings, concerns and secrets of countless ...

Content scoring tools work, but only for the first gate in Google’s pipeline

Google’s first-stage retrieval still runs on word matching, not AI magic. Here’s how to use content scoring tools accordingly ...

The authority era: How AI is reshaping what ranks in search

From PageRank to AI Overviews, Google’s understanding of authority evolved. Here's why brand legitimacy now drives sustainable visibility.
IEEE

Genetic Algorithm-Based Search Space Exploration to Generate Best Convolutional Neural Network

Abstract: Despite the wide variety of applications and use cases that can be solved with the help of machine learning algorithms, researchers have yet to develop a general artificial intelligence ...
IEEE

A Resource-Efficient Decentralized Sequential Planner for Spatiotemporal Wildfire Mitigation

Abstract: This paper proposes a Conflict-aware Resource-Efficient Decentralized Sequential planner (CREDS) for early wildfire mitigation using multiple heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).
GitHub

[OSDI'25 Artifact] Achieving Low-Latency Graph-Based Vector Search via Aligning Best-First Search Algorithm with SSD

Welcome to the artifact repository of OSDI'25 accepted paper: Achieving Low-Latency Graph-Based Vector Search via Aligning Best-First Search Algorithm with SSD! This repository contains the ...