Rappler's latest stories on search engines
Microsoft 'waiting to find out' why Bing went offline in China
Bing's temporary disruption comes as a surprise because the search engine has followed China's censorship rules
Microsoft's Bing search engine inaccessible in China
Bing's disruption comes as the United States and China are locked in a bruising trade war, with US accusations that China steals technological know-how among the core disagreements.
Google CEO U.S. House appearance postponed to December 11
(UPDATED) The hearing will look at how internet firms may 'suppress particular viewpoints and manipulate public opinion,' says US lawmaker Bob Goodlatte
Google says it fired 48 for sexual harassment over 2 years
Google releases an email sent to employees from Sundar Pichai saying 48 people had been terminated for sexual harassment in the past two years, including 13 who were senior managers and above and that none received 'an exit package'
How humans fit into Google’s machine future
'The perfect search engine would be like the mind of God,' Google co-founder Sergey Brin has once said
How Google’s innovation will continue beyond its 20th year
One day, a personal fitness tracker might note that a user’s resting heart rate is 15% higher this week than the average over the past six months. From there, Google might offer up research or doctors’ advice about cardiovascular health
Trump idea on regulating Google 'unfathomable'
Legal and media experts say Google and other internet firms enjoy the same constitutional protections on free speech as news outlets
Here's what we really know about Google's mysterious search engine
Algorithms, AI, crawlers – here's a look at some of the underpinnings of Google's search engine
Trump warns tech giants, stepping up attacks claiming 'bias'
A top White House aide suggests some type of regulation may be coming in response to the president's complaints
Google employees sign protest letter over China search engine – New York Times
'We urgently need more transparency, a seat at the table, and a commitment to clear and open processes: Google employees need to know what we're building,' they say in the letter, according to the Times
Googlers bristle at censoring search for China – report
Google withdrew its search engine from China 8 years ago due to censorship and hacking but it is now working on a project for the country codenamed 'Dragonfly,' according to Google employees
Google developing censor-friendly search engine for China – source
'It will be a dark day for internet freedom if Google has acquiesced to China's extreme censorship rules to gain market access,' says an Amnesty International researcher
Apple snags Google's top AI executive - report
John Giannandrea, Google's former head of AI and search, represents Apple's bid to keep up with the competition when it comes to its AI technology
Google fined $21M in India for abusing dominant position
Google has been found to have favored its own services when customers ran searches according to the Competition Commission of India
Microsoft adds AI features, Reddit partnership to Bing search engine
The new features aim to add more nuance to answers given on search queries
Google releases jobs search engine in U.S.
Users in the US looking for a job need only to set a search string that qualifies as a job seeking query – such as jobs near me or writing jobs – and the search function will give you what s available from its listings
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Google starts weeding out hateful, violent content from search results
The search giant s updated content review policies take aim at offensive material
CEO of China's Baidu summoned over student death
Wei accuses the hospital of exaggerating the treatment s efficacy and accuses Baidu of ranking medical information search results by the amount paid by advertisers denouncing it as evil
Firefox browsers switch to Yahoo for online search
Mozilla Firefox switches search engines and signs a 5 year deal with Yahoo for it to become Firefox s default search engine in the US
Google opens first data centers in Asia
Between July and September of 2013 alone more than 600 million people in Asia land on the mobile Internet for the first time
[Executive Edge] Building your social media presence
Social media is a long term investment that pays off in the long run
Yahoo Japan suspects 22 million IDs stolen
The company updated its security measures to prevent a repeat of the incident
Google makes site recovery tutorial page
Google puts up a resource to help website owners in the event of a site hacking
Google threatens to drop links to French media
A new law requires search engines to pay for content in France
Google doodle marks Philippine independence day
Google s logo is changed to commemorate the Philippines 114th independence day
Google reveals copyrighted material claims
Google reveals details about requests it receives for links to be removed from search results
Google making search smarter
The California based Internet titan is intent on adding semantic capabilities to Google
