Search Stories for 2015

Publisher Is Pretty Sure Google Could End Piracy 216
On the Coming Chatbot Revolution 94
Google Planning New Messaging App With AI Chatbots 52
Ubuntu 16.04 Will Not Send Local Searches Over the Web By Default 102
Over 650 TB of Data Up For Grabs From Publicly Exposed MongoDB Database 96
Ask Slashdot: Best (or Better) Ways To Archive Email? 177
Yahoo To Spin Off Everything That Makes It Yahoo 210
Is AI Development Moving In the Wrong Direction? 189
Israel Meets With Google and YouTube To Discuss Censoring Videos 529
Cortana Coming To iOS, For 2000 Beta Testers 39
Google Scours 1.2 Million URLs To Conform With EU's "Right To Be Forgotten" Law 67
With TensorFlow, Google Open Sources Its Machine Learning Resources 37
Siri Won't Answer Some Questions If You're Not Subscribed To Apple Music 144
Google Drops Desktop Voice Search In Chrome 51
Google Lets Advertisers Target By (Anonymized) Customer Data 58
The Difficulty In Getting a Machine To Forget Anything 79
Why AltaVista Lost Ground To Google Sooner Than Expected 172
Report: Google Will Return To China 82
Some Uber Ride Data Publicly Accessible Through Google 28
The Speakularity, Where Everything You Say Is Transcribed and Searchable 74
Google Facing Fine of Up To $1.4 Billion In India Over Rigged Search Results 152
Google May Try To Recruit You For a Job Based On Your Search Queries 182
Since-Pulled Cyanogen Update For Oneplus Changes Default Home Page To Bing 87
Skylake Has a Voice DSP and Listens To Your Commands 99
Why Google Wants To Sell You a Wi-Fi Router 198
Now Google Must Censor Search Results About "Right To Be Forgotten" Removals 179
Cortana Can Now Replace Google Now On Android Devices 155
Internet Search Engines May Be Influencing Elections 67
Google Rejects French Order For 'Right To Be Forgotten' 330
Google Will Block Access To Its Autocomplete API On August 10 59
Universal Pictures Wants To Remove Localhost and IMDB Pages From Google Results 188
Popular Torrent Site Disappears From Google After Penalty 165
A Quick Leak, As Microsoft Tests the Waters For Cortana On Android 44
Google Accidentally Reveals Data On 'Right To Be Forgotten' Requests 51
Ask Slashdot: How Should Devs Deal With Trademark Trolls? 99
Study: Women Less Likely To Be Shown Ads For High-paid Jobs On Google 233
New Study Accuses Google of Anti-competitive Search Behavior 133
BBC Curates The "Right To Be Forgotten" Links That Google Can't 146
The Next Java Update Could Make Yahoo Your Default Search Provider 328
Ask Slashdot: Keeping Cloud Data Encrypted Without Cross-Platform Pain? 107
YouTube Algorithm Can Decide Your Channel URL Now Belongs To Someone Else 272
DuckDuckGo Sees Massive Growth In Post-Snowden World 112
Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Search Engines Left That Don't Try To Think For Me? 424
France Claims Right To Censor Search Results Globally 337
Ask Toolbar Now Considered Malware By Microsoft 212
Ask Slashdot: How To Turn an Email Stash Into Knowledge For My Successor? 203
Siri, Cortana and Google Have Nothing On SoundHound's Speech Recognition 235
Baidu Forced To Withdraw Last Month's ImageNet Test Results 94
Creationists Manipulating Search Results 445
Ask Slashdot: Can SaaS Be Both Open Source and Economically Viable? 49
Tweets To Appear In Google Search Results 91
Report: Google To Add 'Buy' Buttons To Mobile Search Results 35
How Google Searches Are Promoting Genocide Denial 216
'Mobilegeddon': Google To Punish Mobile-Hostile Sites Starting Today 356
Ask Slashdot: What Features Would You Like In a Search Engine? 276
Google 'Makes People Think They Are Smarter Than They Are' 227
Ask Slashdot: What Happened To Semantic Publishing? 68
FTC: Google Altered Search Results For Profit 232
Deutsche Telecom Calls For Google and Facebook To Be Regulated Like Telcos 106
Marissa Mayer On Turning Around Yahoo 167
Google Reverses Stance, Allows Porn On Blogger After Backlash 102
Google Knocks Explicit Adult Content On Blogger From Public View 285
Antitrust Case Against Google Thrown Out of SF Court 62
'Google Search On Steroids' Brings Dark Web To Light 69
Google Earth Pro Now Available Free 117
Google Search Will Be Your Next Brain 45
First Crowdsourced, Open Data Address List Launches In the UK 33
Chilling Effects DMCA Archive Censors Itself 88
Google Sees Biggest Search Traffic Drop Since 2009 As Yahoo Gains Ground 155
Who's Responsible When Your Semi-Autonomous Shopping Bot Purchases Drugs Online? 182
Interviews: Ask Alexander Stepanov and Daniel E. Rose a Question 80