Search Stories for 2014

Spanish Media Group Wants Gov't Help To Keep Google News In Spain 191
Facebook Drops Bing Search Results 33
Google Confirms That It's Designing Kid-Friendly Versions of Its Services 52
Microsoft's Age-Old Image Library 'Clip Art' Is No More 110
Google Told To Expand Right To Be Forgotten 193
Firefox Will Soon Offer One-Click Buttons For Your Search Engines 101
Mozilla's 2013 Report: Revenue Up 1% To $314M; 90% From Google 161
The EU Has a Plan To Break Up Google 334
Google Announces Image Recognition Advance 29
Google Maps Crunches Data, Tells You When To Drive On Thanksgiving 62
Firefox Signs Five-Year Deal With Yahoo, Drops Google as Default Search Engine 400
Court Rules Google's Search Results Qualify As Free Speech 137
Mozilla Updates Firefox With Forget Button, DuckDuckGo Search, and Ads 327
Amazon's Echo: a $200, Multi-Function, Audio-Centric Device 129
Pianist Asks Washington Post To Remove Review Under "Right To Be Forgotten" 257
Disney Patents a Piracy Free Search Engine 164
How Google Can Get the Flu Right 31
Signed-In Maps Mean More Location Data For Google 39
Google Search Finally Adds Information About Video Games 47
Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems 289
German Publishers Capitulate, Let Google Post News Snippets 95
Google Changes 'To Fight Piracy' By Highlighting Legal Sites 160
BBC Takes a Stand For the Public's Right To Remember Redacted Links 113
Ask Slashdot: Why Can't Google Block Spam In Gmail? 265
China Bans "Human Flesh Searching" 109
Brown Dog: a Search Engine For the Other 99 Percent (of Data) 23
Artificial General Intelligence That Plays Video Games: How Did DeepMind Do It? 93
DuckDuckGo Now Blocked In China 82
Is Alibaba Comparable To a US Company? 126
Why a Chinese Company Is the Biggest IPO Ever In the US 191
Court Rules the "Google" Trademark Isn't Generic 159
U.S. Threatened Massive Fine To Force Yahoo To Release Data 223
European Commission Reopens Google Antitrust Investigation 96
Alibaba's US IPO Could Top $20 Billion 97
MetaFilter Founder Says Vacation Firm Forged Court Docs To Scotch Review 116
Google Serves Old Search Page To Old Browsers 152
850 Billion NSA Surveillance Records Searchable By Domestic Law Enforcement 207
Google Will Give a Search Edge To Websites That Use Encryption 148
Inside the Facebook Algorithm Most Users Don't Even Know Exists 130
How Google Handles 'Right To Be Forgotten' Requests 135
Nasty Business: How To Drain Competitors' Google AdWords Budgets 97
On Forgetting the Facts: Questions From the EU For Google, Other Search Engines 186
Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Get (or Share) News About Open Source Projects? 85
Bing Implements Right To Be Forgotten 64
Slashdot Asks: Do You Want a Smart Watch? 381
How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business 132
Microsoft Kills Off MapPoint and Streets and Trips In Favor of Bing Maps 174
Google Reinstating Some 'Forgotten' Links 74
European Commission Spokesman: Google Removing Link Was "not a Good Judgement" 210
Following EU Ruling, BBC Article Excluded From Google Searches 239
Canadian Court Orders Google To Remove Websites From Its Global Index 248
Microsoft To Launch Machine Learning Service 56
Appeals Court Finds Scanning To Be Fair Use 34
Project Un1c0rn Wants To Be the Google For Lazy Security Flaws 43
Apple Acquires Social Search Engine Spotsetter 21
Thousands of Europeans Petition For Their 'Right To Be Forgotten' 224
Google Stars Extension For Chrome Leaks: Hands On 26
Torrentz.eu Domain Name Suspended 226
Microsoft Is Paying Brazilian Users In Skype Credit To Switch to Bing 90
On MetaFilter Being Penalized By Google 108
Microsoft Announces Windows 8.1 With Bing To Sell Cheaper Devices 124
EU Court Backs 'Right To Be Forgotten' 153
EU Court of Justice Paves Way For "Right To Be Forgotten" Online 199
Can Google Influence Elections? 138
Researchers See a Post-Snowden Chilling Effect In Our Search Data 138
Google Hit With Antitrust Lawsuit Over Default Search on Android Phones 221
Google Halts Gmail Scanning for Education Apps Users 67
DarkMarket, the Decentralized Answer To Silk Road, Is About More Than Just Drugs 251
Google Aids Scientology-Linked Group CCHR With Pay-Per-Click Ads 186
New 'Google' For the Dark Web Makes Buying Dope and Guns Easy 156
Is Crimea In Russia? Internet Companies Have Different Answers 304
Bill Would End US Govt's Sale of Already-Available Technical Papers To Itself 32
Why No One Trusts Facebook To Power the Future 218
Was Eich a Threat To Mozilla's $1B Google "Trust Fund"? 564
The Amazon Fire TV Is Kind of a Mess 96
The Inside Story of Gmail On Its Tenth Anniversary 142
Facebook, Google Battle To Bring Internet To Remote Locations 49
U.S. Court: Chinese Search Engine's Censorship Is 'Free Speech' 284
Google Now Arrives In Chrome For Windows and Mac 74
Google Blurring Distinction Between Ads and Organic Search Results 187
Google Flu Trends Gets It Wrong Three Years Running 64
Google Faces Up To $5 Billion Fine From Competition Commission of India 89
Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen Say Google Data Now Protected From Gov't Spying 155
Free (Gratis) Version of Windows Could Be a Reality Soon 392
Supreme Court Ruling Relaxes Warrant Requirements For Home Searches 500
Google Publishes Commitments It Made To Settle EU Antitrust Case 8
This Isn't the First Time Microsoft's Been Accused of Bing Censorship 56
The First Open Ranking of the World Wide Web Is Available 53
Bing Censoring Chinese Language Search Results For Users In the US 100
Blogger Fined €3,000 for 'Publicizing' Files Found Through Google Search 248
DARPA Seeks the Holy Grail of Search Engines 78
Elsevier Opens Its Papers To Text-Mining 52
Chinese Search Giant Baidu Launches International Sites 38
Canadian Music Industry Calls For Internet Regulation, Website Blocking 198
EU Commissioner Renews Call for Serious Fines in Data Privacy Laws 162
Actually, It's Google That's Eating the World 205
The Other Exam Room: When Doctors 'Google' Their Patients 231
US Federal Judge Rules Suspicionless Border Searches of Laptops Constitutional 462