Search Stories for 2017

Germany Orders Amazon To Stop Taking Advantage of People Who Can't Spell 'Birkenstock' 162
How Climate Change Deniers Rise To the Top in Google Searches 359
Google Works With Hotels To Hurt Travel Competition 129
Microsoft Unveils Improved AI-powered Search Features for Bing 38
Searchable Database of 1.4 Billion Stolen Credentials Found On Dark Web 72
Tech Support Scammers Invade Spotify Forums To Rank in Search Engines 33
Google's Mobile Search Results Now Include Videos Of Celebrities Answering Your Questions 63
Yahoo Sues Mozilla For Breach of Contract -- So Mozilla Counter Sues Yahoo 112
Google Seeks To Defuse Row With Russia Over Website Rankings 71
Russia To Act Against Google if Sputnik, RT Get Lower Search Rankings 192
New Windows Search Interface Borrows Heavily From MacOS 86
Google Returns As Default Search Engine In Firefox 136
Google To Add Restaurant Wait Times To Google Search, Maps 59
Google Wins Ruling to Block Global Censorship Order 89
Google Has a New Plan for China (and It's Not About Search) 59
The Meaning of AMP 95
Google Paid $7.2 Billion Last Year To Partners, Including Apple, To Prominently Showcase Its Search Engine and Apps on Smartphones 57
Google Scraps Controversial Policy That Gave Free Access To Paywalled Articles Through Search 97
Apple Replaces Bing With Google as Search Engine For Siri and Spotlight 54
Google, Bing, Yahoo Data Retention Doesn't Improve Search Quality, Study Claims 38
Google Rival Yelp Claims Search Giant Broke Promise Made to Regulators 61
Firefox 57 Will Hide Search Bar and Use a Uni-Bar Approach, Like Chrome 315
Google Abused Its Power By Quashing a Report Critical Of Its Service, Reporter Says 279
Google Invites Users To 'Check If You're Clinically Depressed' 124
Bing is 'Bigger Than You Think', Says Microsoft 220
Google Pays Apple $3 Billion Per Year To Remain On the iPhone, Analyst Says 101
'Best of' Lists Are the Worst 84
Google in Talks To Transform Its Instant News Articles Into a Snapchat Rival 15
Google Is Testing Autoplay Videos Directly In Search Results 126
YouTube Will Now Redirect Searches For Extremist Videos To Anti-Terrorist Playlists 136
Google To Add 'News Feed' To Website and App 48
Insider Trader Arrested After He Googled 'Insider Trading,' Authorities Allege 124
Google May Face Another Record EU Fine, This Time Over Android 192
Yelp's Six-Year Grudge Against Google 42
Google Must Delete Search Results Worldwide, Supreme Court of Canada Rules 271
Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion By EU For Skewing Searches 362
Google Home Is 6 Times More Likely To Answer Your Question Than Amazon Alexa 64
Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails For Gmail Ads 67
Google Will Now Hide Personal Medical Records From Search Results 34
Google Launches Its AI-Powered Jobs Search Engine 38
Fidget Spinners Are Over 175
EU Poised To Fine Google More Than $1 Billion in Antitrust Case 102
Wall Street Journal's Google Traffic Drops 44% After Pulling Out of First Click Free 257
Google Could Face a $9 Billion EU Fine For Rigging Search Results In Its Favor 86
Mary Meeker's 2017 Internet Trends Report 40
2B Pages On Web Now Use Google's AMP, Pages Now Load Twice As Fast 60
Google To Launch a Jobs Search Engine In the US 27
Google Will Soon Add Job Listings To Search Results 83
German Publishers' Lawsuit Against Google May Backfire 29
'Google Is As Close To a Natural Monopoly As the Bell System Was In 1956' 248
You Can't Change the Default Browser or Switch To Google Search In Windows 10 S 302
How To Delete Your Data From Google's 'My Activity' 44
Google Looks at People As it Pledges To Fight Fake News and 'Offensive' Content 173
Google's Featured Snippets Are Damaging To Small Businesses that Depend On Search Traffic 144
Google Agrees To Open Android To Other Search Engines In Russia 64
Facebook Has Reached Its Microsoft Bing Moment -- History Shows the Results Won't Be Pretty 150
Google Tackles Fake News With Global Fact-Checking Rollout 230
Why Bargain Travel Sites May No Longer Be Bargains 140
Verizon To Force 'AppFlash' Spyware On Android Phones 120
Google Home Gets 'Beauty & The Beast' Promo But Google Says It's Not an Ad 124
Google Tells Army of 'Quality Raters' To Flag Holocaust Denial 429
EU Court Sets Limit On 'Right To Be Forgotten' In Company Registers 28
Google's Featured Snippets Are Worse Than Fake News 183
Mobile Search Engine Baidu Goes Dark For Nearly 20 Minutes 19
Google Says Almost Every Recent 'Trusted' DMCA Notices Were Bogus 83
Google and Microsoft To Crackdown On Piracy Sites In Search Results 104
Attacks On WordPress Sites Intensify As Hackers Deface Over 1.5 Million Pages 119
US House Passes Bill Requiring Warrants To Search Old Emails 94
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Acquires and Will Free Up Science Search Engine Meta 68
More People Than Ever Are Using DuckDuckGo; Site Says It Observed 14M Searches in One Day This Month 210
Google Uses Search To Push Its Products: WSJ 62
The Problem With Google AMP 56
Android Will Now Store Google Searches Offline and Deliver Them When You Get Signal 35
Sensitive Data Stored On Box.com Accounts Accessible Via Search Queries 29