Search Stories for 2013

Google Nabs Bing Maps Architect 94
Google Testing Smart Appliance, Would Compete With Nest Thermostat 139
270 Million Android Users In China 44
French Court Orders Search Engines, ISPs To Block Pirate Sites 75
FOIA: NSA Contracts Stored In Paper Files, Unsearchable, Unindexed 114
Real-Time Radio Search Engine From Music Industry's Nemesis 59
P2P Data Not Private, But It Could Be 59
Credit Card Numbers Still Google-able 157
French Court Orders Google To Block Pictures of Ex-F1 Chief Mosley 180
Google Bots Doing SQL Injection Attacks 156
Google Relying On People Power For 'Helpouts' 57
You're Only As Hirable As Your Google+ Circles 195
Google Testing Banner Ads On Select Search Results 185
Some Bing Ads Redirecting To Malware 146
Google Cracks Down On Mugshot Blackmail Sites 251
Taking Back Control of Your Data, With Fine Grained, Explicit Permissions 55
Google To Encrypt All Keyword Searches 224
Jonathon Fletcher: The Forgotten Father of the Search Engine 95
Yahoo Pulls Out of China 79
Dotless Domain Names Prohibited, ICANN Tells Google 132
Why Computers Still Don't Understand People 277
Federal Judge Rules NYC "Stop and Frisk" Violated Rights 308
Is 'Fair Use' Unfair To Humans? 259
Surveillance Story Turns Into a Warning About Employer Monitoring 382
Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks: Get a Visit From the Feds 923
NSA Can't Search Its Own Email 165
DuckDuckGo: Illusion of Privacy 264
Microsoft To Add Ads To Smart Search 169
Google Street View Backpack Now Available To Volunteers 108
Ask Slashdot: Explaining Cloud Privacy Risks To K-12 Teachers? 168
Yahoo Puts AltaVista To Death 176
Former Scientologist: CoS Told Brin It Wanted Only "Good" Search Results 205
FTC Demands Search Engines Separate Paid Advertisements From Search Results 230
No "Right To Be Forgotten," Says EU Advocate General 116
Microsoft Pushing Bing For Search In Schools, With Ad-Removal Hook 158
Latest Target In War On Drugs: Google Autocomplete 154
Google Aims To Cull Child Porn By Algorithm, Not Human Review 306
Researchers Pull Out of Talks With Publishers On Text-Mining 67
In UK, Search Engines Urged To Block More Online Porn Sites 186
Google's View On the Whac-a-Mole of Blocking Pirate Sites 182
Why Google's Display Ad Business Drew FTC Antitrust Probe 50
Entrepreneur On Yahoo/Tumblr: It's the Content Readers, Stupid 92
Eric Schmidt: Teens' Mistakes Will Never Go Away 335
Yahoo! Japan May Have Had 22 Million User IDs Stolen 28
Wired Writer Imagines Google Island 150
Google I/O 2013 Underway: Watch For Updates 115
In Germany, Offensive Autocomplete Is No Laughing Matter 200
Has Google Shut Down SMS Search? 118
The NSA's Own Guide To Google Hacking and Other Internet Research 45
Google Seeks 'Do-No-Discoverable-Evil' Patent 109
Harvard/MIT Student Creates GPU Database, Hacker-Style 135
Twitter Launches the World's Umpteenth Online Music Site 45
Bing Tops Google At Finding Malware 111
The Search Engine More Dangerous Than Google 210
Competitors Complain To EC That Free Android Is a 'Trojan Horse' 315
Google Cache Makes Murdoch's K-12 Site Look Obscene 101
Film Studios Send Takedown Notices About Takedown Notices 197
Google Glass and Surveillance Culture 318
Google Bumps Up Search a Notch With Google Nose BETA 66
No "Ungoogleable" In Swedish Lexicon, Thanks to Google 207
Defcad.com Wants To Be the Google of 3D-Printable Guns 225
SXSW: Google's Amit Singhal Talks SEO "Experts," Mobile, Search 54
Using Google To Help Predict Side Effects of Mixing Drugs 47
Facebook Details the Software Engineering Behind Graph Search 41
Federal Court OKs Amazon's System of Suggesting Alternative Products 102
PunkSPIDER Project Puts Vulnerabilities On (Searchable) Display 85
French Officials Say EU Will Sanction Google Over Privacy 161
Google Watchers Expect Company-Branded Stores This Year 86
When Google Got Flu Wrong 72
Russian Search Engine Yandex Beats Bing 88
Facebook's Graph Search: Kiss Your Privacy Goodbye 245
Google Redesigns Image Search, Raises Copyright and Hosting Concerns 203
Racism In Online Ad Targeting 474
Wolfram Alpha Number-Crunches the Super Bowl 67
60M Euro Smooths Relations Between Google and French Publishers 61
Github Kills Search After Hundreds of Private Keys Exposed 176
Wolfram Alpha Gives a New Window On Facebook Data 23
'Bankrupt' Australian Surgeon Sues Google For Auto-Complete 305
How Facebook Will Power Graph Search 26
Why Ray Kurzweil's Google Project May Be Doomed To Fail 354
French Telecom Claims To Have Forced Google To Pay For Traffic 207
Google Invests $1 Billion To Build New London HQ 132
Google Chrome 25 Will Serve Searches Over SSL From the Omnibox For All Users 101
Facebook Lets You Harvest Account Phone Numbers 185
Messenger App Brings Free VoIP to US Facebook Users — At a Price 58
Facebook Announces Social Search Tools 128
EU Antitrust Chief: Google "Diverting Traffic" & Will Be Forced To Change 329
Google Gives Up Fight Against Chinese Censorship 96
Google Backs Down On Maps Redirect 240
Google, FTC Settle Antitrust Case 59
Ask Slashdot: Undoing an Internet Smear Campaign? 338
How Google Glass Is Evolving As It Heads For Release To Developers 140