Search Stories for 2012

Gnome Extension Offers a Shopping Lens We Can Live With 72
Huge Site Ranking Dataset Donated to the Common Crawl Foundation 23
Ray Kurzweil Joins Google As Director of Engineering 148
China Quietly Unblocks Names of Its Leaders 39
Google Loses Santa To Bing 153
Revamped Google Maps Finally Available On iOS 279
Google's Second Brain: How the Knowledge Graph Changes Search 76
Google's Image Search Now Requires Explicit Queries For Explicit Results 369
Google CEO Larry Page Talks Apple, Android, Google+ 136
Movie Studios Ask Google To Censor Links To Legal Copies of Their Own Films 196
German Copyright Bill Would Let Publishers Charge Search Engines For Excerpts 114
Google Found Guilty of Libel For Search Results In Australia 223
Google's Manual For Its Unseen Human Raters 67
Search For "Foolproof Suffocation" Missed In Casey Anthony Case 379
DuckDuckGo - Is Google Playing Fair? 178
EFF Wants Ubuntu To Disable Online Search By Default 124
France Applies Tax Pressure To Google For Republishing News Snippets 350
What an Anti-Google Antitrust Case By the FTC May Look Like 167
How Google Cools Its 1 Million Servers 87
Brazilian Newspapers Leave Google News En Masse 223
Google Threatens French Media Ban 419
Congressman Warns FTC: Leave Google Alone 303
FTC To Recommend Antitrust Case Against Google 195
Samsung Galaxy Nexus Ban Overturned 140
Automated DMCA Takedown Notices Request Censorship of Legitimate Sites 192
Google Puts Souped-Up Neural Networks To Work 95
Foxconn Workers On Strike Over iPhone 5 Production 184
.xxx Registrar To Launch Pr0n Search Engine 149
Shuttleworth: Trust Us, We're Trying to Make Shopping Better 255
Iran Set To Block Access To Google 279
Apple Reportedly Luring Ex-Google Mappers With Jobs 334
Google Could Face Heavy Antitrust Fines In the EU 292
Google Stops Offering Free Music Service In China 67
Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed 646
Microsoft Urging Safari Users To Use Bing 266
Google Spanner: First Globally Scalable Database With External Consistency 49
Google Announces Its First Latin-American Data Center 52
Google Patents Profit-Maximizing Dynamic Pricing 294
Google Extends Patent Search To Prior Art 81
Google Patents Software To Identify Real-World Objects In Videos 150
Data-Mine Your Own Facebook Data With Wolfram Alpha 55
New iOS App Sends Users' Web Traffic Through Its Proxy Servers 83
The Worst Job At Google: a Year of Watching Terrible Things On the Internet 535
Why Amazon Is Google's Real Competition 129
Google Acquiring Frommer's In Big Travel Data Play 40
What Happens To Google Employees When They Die? 170
Google To Start Punishing Pirate Sites In Search Results 294
Google Outs 3D Maps For iOS Ahead of Apple 197
Samsung Galaxy S3 Stripped of Local Search 243
Why You Shouldn't Write Off Google+ Just Yet 286
Facebook Loses Users, Satisfaction Higher at Google+ 274
Google Joining Fight Against Drug Cartels 253
How Google Is Becoming an Extension of Your Mind 154
How Huffington Post's Clever Traffic-Generation Machine Works 165
Apple Forces Google To Degrade Android Features 498
British Airways Plans To Google Passengers 177
Another Death in the Cloud As Apple Kills Off iWork 134
On Orbitz, Mac Users Offered Pricier Hotels First 305
PadMapper Gets C&D From Craigslist Over Apartment Listing Maps 140
Google CEO Larry Page Says "Nothing Seriously Wrong" 88
Google Detects 9500 Malicious Sites Per Day 69
How Steve Jobs Changed Google Plus 243
Search Tracking Purports To Show Effect of Racism On '08 Election 511
Patent Troll Sues Google, AOL Over Search 'Snippets' and Ad Serving Tech 83
Could Cops Use Google As Pre-Cogs? 376
Google To Require Retailers To Pay To Be In Google Shopping Results 102
Google Highlights Censored Search Terms In China 99
Sergey Brin Demos Google Glasses Prototype 122
Google Now Searches JavaScript 114
Call For DOJ To Reopen Google Wi-Fi Spying Investigation 82
Worried About Information Leaks, IBM Bans Siri 168
Microsoft Tests Social Search Waters With 'so.cl' Network 135
Apple Lifts Ban On the Word "Jailbreak" 113
Iran Threatens Legal Action Against Google For Not Labeling Gulf 'Persian' 246
Apple Tells Siri To Stop Recommending Nokia 337
Resumegate Continues At Yahoo: Thompson Out As CEO, Levinsohn In 107
First Amendment Protection For Search Results? 76
How Romanian Fortune Tellers Used Google To Fleece Victims 140
Data Engineer In Google Case Is Identified 186
NY Times: Microsoft Tried To Unload Bing On Facebook 230
Is Siri Smarter Than Google? 366
Microsoft Patent Hints At Search Results Tailored To User's Mood, Intelligence 146
Google Shutting Out Rivals, Claims Russian Search Engine Yandex 170
Ask Slashdot: Movie/Video Search Aggregation? 96
Iran Plans To Unplug the Internet, Launch Its Own 'Clean' Alternative 301
Larry Page Issues Public Update On Google Changes 159
Google Maps Directions Adds Real-Time Traffic Estimates 54
Google Using ReCAPTCHA To Decode Street Addresses 104
Google I/O Sells Out In 20 Minutes 221
What Does Google Get Out of Voice? 119
UK MPs Threaten New Laws If Google Won't Censor Search 154
Japanese Court Orders Google To Turn Off Auto-Complete Function 236
Google Is Planning To Penalize Overly Optimized Sites 299
George "geohot" Hotz Arrested In Texas For Posession of Marijuana 578
Google Introduces Programming Challenge In Advance Of GoogleIO 114
Google 'Wasting' $16 Billion On Projects Headed Nowhere 408
German Law To Make Google Pay For Snippets 117
Bing Now Nearly As Good As Google — Says Microsoft 405
Spanish Company Tests 'Right To Be Forgotten' Against Google 200
Internet Giants To Honor the 'No' In 'No Tracking' 118
Last Day To Tell Google To Forget You 238
Google Heads Up Display Coming By the End of the Year 177
Privacy-Centric Search Engine Scroogle Shuts Down 128
Google: IE Privacy Policy Is Impractical 258
Online Privacy Worth Less Than Marshmallow Fluff Six Pack 223
Former Google Exec: Traditional Search Market Shrinking 184
RIAA Wants To Scrap Anti-Piracy OPEN Act 268
French Court Calls Free Google Maps Unfair Competition 238
Copyright Industry Calls For Broad Search Engine Controls 421
FBI Building App To Scrape Social Media 133
Top Google Executives Approved Illegal Drug Ads 287
Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace To Google: Don't Be Evil 208
Google Updates Algorithm To Punish Websites With Excessive Ads 321
FTC Expands Its Google Antitrust Investigations 137
Bing Search Overtakes Yahoo 169
Twitter Comes Out Swinging Against Google's Personalized Search 186
Google Merges Google+ Into Search 279
Google Accused of Interfering With South Korean FTC Investigation 186
French Court Frowns On Autocomplete, Tells Google To Remove Searches 343
Google Testing Completely Revamped Look 195