Tech Business News

11/08/2026

Rising fuel prices are driving interest in affordable EVs, which now dominate searches on RACV Car Match

11/08/2026

01/08/2026

https://www.techbusinessnews.com.au/news/why-the-qantas-22-hour-flight-is-a-hard-pass-for-one-travel-expert/

Qantas’s plan to launch the world’s longest commercial passenger flights has been promoted as the next step in international travel, promising Australians direct connections to cities including London and New York without the need for a stopover. The airline’s ambitious Project Sunrise program...

20/06/2026

https://www.techbusinessnews.com.au/news/duckduckgo-sees-30-install-spike-as-users-push-back-on-google-ai-search/

DuckDuckGo, a privacy first search engine is seeing a sharp rise in app installs as frustration grows over Google’s decision to push artificial intelligence deeper into search results, raising fresh concerns about user choice, accuracy and the future of the open web. The privacy-focused search eng...

20/06/2026

https://www.techbusinessnews.com.au/news/australia-may-tax-big-tech-on-revenue-it-cant-verify/

Australian media companies are pushing for the tax commissioner to be given sweeping new powers to investigate how much money Google, Meta and TikTok actually make in Australia. The push comes amid concerns that complex corporate structures are being used to shift billions of dollars in local revenu...

20/06/2026

https://www.techbusinessnews.com.au/the-open-internet-is-getting-smaller-as-users-move-into-smaller-online-communities/

For years, the internet rewarded scale. The goal was simple: build the biggest audience, chase the largest follower count, gather the most subscribers and push content into as many feeds as possible. The open internet appears to be getting smaller as users move away from independent websites and int...

20/06/2026

https://www.techbusinessnews.com.au/why-google-must-stop-using-reddit-as-a-source-for-ai-search-answers/

Google needs to remove Reddit as a major source for AI-generated answers and stop allowing it to dominate search results. Time after time, Reddit appears as one of the top sources in Google’s AI search answers. Reddit is now drawing an estimated 1.2 billion organic visits from Google each month, h...

20/06/2026

https://www.techbusinessnews.com.au/news/google-given-six-months-to-make-search-rankings-more-transparent-as-ai-overviews-face-continued-scrutiny/

Google is facing new regulatory scrutiny after being designated with strategic market status in October last year, a move linked to its dominance of the UK search market, where it accounts for more than 90% of searches. The search engine giant has been told to make its search rankings more transpare...