search engines
This Entrepreneur Wants to Build a Kurdish Alternative to Google
Egerin is a Kurdish search engine that aims to bring Kurds online and preserve their languages.
How Much Does Google Actually Know About Going Out Clubbing?
We got everyone's favourite search engine to guide us through a big night out. Guess what? It sucked!
Wikimedia: We’re Really Really Not Building a Search Engine
The nonprofit that runs Wikipedia says the idea it was competing a Google competitor has been a big misunderstanding.
The Secret Search Engine Tearing Wikipedia Apart
The secrecy surrounding Wikimedia’s search engine goes against the organization’s ethos of radical transparency.
Semantic Search Engine Omnity Reckons It Can Beat Google
After several years in secretive development, Omnity hopes that its semantic search engine can change our very idea of what online search can actually accomplish.
Google’s New Alphabet Doesn’t Include 'Don’t Be Evil'
Why Google's new umbrella company spells the end of Silicon Valley's most famous slogan.
How to Digitally Profile an Alleged Mass Murderer
Can search history be considered a significant tool in profiling Andreas Lubitz? Can search history be considered a significant tool in profiling anyone?
It Will Take Google 22 Days to Find You
Unindexed was a website that constantly searched for itself in Google. The moment it was indexed, it deleted itself.
Who Has the Right to Be Forgotten on the Internet?
Five months after a European court decision that required Google (and other search engines) to "forget" certain information about people, the mechanics of that forgetting is still a complicated muddle.