Search Stories for 2019

Reputation Management Firms Bury Google Results By Placing Flattering Content 53
Researchers Report Breakthrough In 'Distributed Deep Learning' 16
Google Search To Stop Indexing Flash Content in Late 2019 46
Google Just Got Better at Understanding Your Trickiest Searches 80
To Live or Die by Google Search Brings an Escalating Cost 91
Google Preps 'Smart Screenshots' Feature To Let You Search With a Screenshot 17
Google Search is Getting Personalized TV and Movie Recommendations 15
Google's Paid Search Ads Are 'Shakedown' and 'Ransom', Basecamp CEO says 120
Google's Clickless Era 52
ByteDance Launches New Search Engine in China 7
Google Attempts To Solve Podcasting's Discovery Problem By Embedding Playable Episodes in Search 57
Google Opens Auction For Default Android Search Engine in Europe 29
CBS News Investigation Finds Fraudulent Court Orders Used To Change Google Search Results 58
Google's Project Dragonfly 'Terminated' In China 41
To Break Google's Monopoly On Search, Make Its Index Public 135
Google Tweaked Algorithm After Rise In US Shootings 190
Google's Robots.txt Parser is Now Open Source 32
Meal-Delivery Company GrubHub is Buying Thousands of Restaurant Web Addresses, Preventing Mom and Pop From Owning Their Slice of Internet 99
Western Intelligence Hacked Russia's Yandex To Spy On Accounts 54
Google Explains How It Licenses Song Lyrics For Search, Will Add Attribution 72
Facebook Turned Off Search Features Used To Catch War Criminals, Child Predators, And Other Bad Actors 84
Malware Spotted Injecting Bing Results Into Google Searches 44
Book Subtitles Are Getting Ridiculously Long. Blame it on SEO. 86
Google Appeals $1.7B EU AdSense Antitrust Fine 44
Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation of Google 144
The North Face Used Wikipedia To Climb To the Top of Google Search Results 105
Wolfram Alpha Search Engine Turns 10: Remains Independent, Private, and Free of External Advertising 41
Microsoft Open-Sources a Crucial Algorithm Behind Its Bing Search Services 55
Google Is About To Have a Lot More Ads On Phones 163
Google's Censored Search Would Help China 'Be More Open', Said Ex-CEO Eric Schmidt 91
Google Creates 'Dedicated Placement' in Search Results For AMP Stories, Starting With Travel Category 42
Reporter Recounts a Quirk in Google's Search Algorithm That Resulted in His Phone Number Getting Listed as Facebook's Customer Support 49
Google Is Adding Augmented Reality To Search 18
Google 'Thanos' For an Epic 'Avengers: Endgame' Easter Egg 48
Google Offers Europeans Choice To Download Rival Web Browser 52
Google Is Conducting a Secret 'Performance Review' Of Its Censored China Search Project 45
Google Fined Nearly $1.7 Billion For Ad Practices That Violated European Antitrust Laws 126
EU Expected To Hit Google with Another Massive Antitrust Fine 105
Google Quietly Adds DuckDuckGo as a Search Engine Option for Chrome Users in About 60 Markets 73
Google Is Still Working on China Search Engine, Employees Claim 82
Anti-Vaccination Conspiracy Theories Thrive on Amazon 324
How Badly is Google Books Search Broken, and Why? 106
Smart Cat Shelter Uses AI To Let Strays Inside, Keep Dogs Out 122
Facebook Glitch Lets You Search For Pictures of Your Female Friends, But Not Your Male Ones 67
Google's I/O Developer Conference Starts May 7th At the Shoreline Amphitheater 10
Microsoft's Bing Search Engine Goes Offline In China 65
Google Faces Renewed Protests and Criticism Over China Search Project 81
Apple Maps Gooses DuckDuckGo In Search Privacy Partnership 56
Google Wins Round in Fight Against Global Right To Be Forgotten 66
Google Search Results Listings Can Be Manipulated For Propaganda 44
DuckDuckGo Denies Using Fingerprinting To Track Its Users 165