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Under the 2014 ruling, search engines must balance those requests against the public’s right to access a link associated with the searched-for name, taking into account, for instance, whether the person is a public figure. — Sam Schechner, WSJ, "Google Nears Win in Europe Over ‘Right to Be Forgotten’," 10 Jan. 2019 According to fashion search engine Lyst, the dress garnered 17,000 searches for ‘yellow Stella McCartney dress' by people from 65 different countries in the week following the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's nuptials. — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, "Amal Clooney's Yellow Royal Wedding Dress Is Now Available to Shop," 18 Dec. 2018 This is used by retail brokers such as TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. and internet search engines like Google and Yahoo . — Gretchen Morgenson, WSJ, "SEC Ruling Takes Aim at Stock-Exchange Profits," 16 Oct. 2018 Once Facebook went down, internet users went directly to news websites or searched for news of any kind, including entertainment and sports through Google or other search engines to replace their Facebook browsing fix. — Recode Staff, Recode, "Recode Daily: Is the podcast bubble bursting?," 24 Sep. 2018 Wyden's announcement said his bill is supported by Consumers Union, search engine operator DuckDuckGo, and four former FTC chief technologists. — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, "Proposed data privacy law could send company execs to prison for 20 years," 2 Nov. 2018 Seven Google employees have reportedly quit their jobs over the lack of accountability and transparency at the search giant over its controversial China search engine effort, codenamed Project Dragonfly. — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, "Google employees quit over controversial China search engine project, report says," 13 Sep. 2018 And shortly after the report was published Wednesday morning, China’s primary search engine Baidu had already taken a hit on the stock market. — Madeleine Ngo, Vox, "Why Google’s plan to launch a censored search engine in China is problematic," 1 Aug. 2018 The agency has pressed search engines to more clearly highlight the ads in their search results with brighter colors. — Laura Stevens, WSJ, "New Parents Complain Amazon Baby-Registry Ads Are Deceptive," 28 Nov. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'search engine.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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