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Feb 20, 2026

Bytes: Week in Review — Google to make links more prominent, Palantir moves to Florida and Ring reportedly had plans to use "Search Party" for more than finding lost dogs

Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, joins Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes on “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

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Bytes: Week in Review — Google to make links more prominent, Palantir moves to Florida and Ring reportedly had plans to use "Search Party" for more than finding lost dogs
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This week, Palantir announced on X it’s relocating its headquarters to Miami. Plus, a look at the controversy around Ring's Search Party feature.

But first, an update to Google's AI search summaries. If you use AI-enabled search on Google, it’ll spit out an AI-generated summary with source links to the right. Now, the company is making links more prominent when users hover over certain words in the AI summary.

Google says this new interface is “more engaging.” Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes spoke with Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, about all this and more.

Everything we talked about

“Google’s AI search results will make links more obvious” from The Verge

“Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results” from Pew Research Center

“Palantir moving its headquarters from Denver to Miami” from CNBC

“Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs” from 404 Media

“Ring’s Founder Knows You Hated That Super Bowl Ad” from The New York Times

The Team

Bytes: Google search, Palantir move, Ring Search Party controversy