The online tracker, which used Internet search data to predict real-life flu outbreaks, emerged amid fanfare in 2008. Then it met a quiet death this August after repeatedly coughing up bad estimates.

Roughly one in five visits to the world’s top internet sites begin on search engines, according to data from analytics firm Semrush. At Wikipedia, search generates 63% of global visits.

Microsoft Corp. has threatened to cut off access to its internet-search data, which it licenses to rival search engines, if they don’t stop using it as the basis for their own artificial ...

Yet, according to a 2020 class-action lawsuit, the tech giant continued to scrape searches by hoovering up data about users who browsed the internet in incognito mode through advertising tools ...

Some search engines for internet-connected devices, such as Shodan, Censys, Zoomeye, Fofa and BinaryEdge, play a crucial role in this task. ... as well as data on accessible remote desktops, ...

Marni Rose McFall is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her focus is on internet trends, U.S. politics and popular culture. She has covered fashion, culture, art and music extensively ...

Data played a starring role in the government’s successful antitrust suit against Google accusing it of illegally protecting its monopoly in online search. Now, steps to force Google to unlock ...