News tagged with web searches
Personal discrimination on the Web
How do you tell if a website you are browsing is a showing you a personal web page expressing the opinions of an individual or the marketing speak of a commercial site in disguise? Information engineers in India and Japan ...
May 21, 2009 |
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Grid browser finds the meaning of life
(PhysOrg.com) -- A web browser that can understand technical terms in life sciences and automatically find additional resources and services has been developed by European researchers. It could lead to a new generation of ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 20, 2009 |
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Review: Flaws in Web's much-touted WolframAlpha
(AP) -- When a free Web service called WolframAlpha launches in the coming days, the general public will get to try a "computational knowledge engine" that has had technology insiders buzzing because of its ...
May 13, 2009 |
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Google digging deeper to improve search results (Update)
(AP) -- Google Inc. is about to add more features to its already dominant Internet search engine - and some of the changes could give Web surfers less reason to click through to other sites. That scenario ...
May 13, 2009 |
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Boom times ahead for mobile Web access
After a slow start, mobile Web access has finally taken off, thanks in large part to better technology, and it will drive growth in Internet use in the future, industry leaders say.
Apr 24, 2009 |
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Web founder makes online privacy plea
Plans by Internet service providers to deliver targeted adverts to consumers based on their Web searches threaten online privacy and should be opposed, the founder of the Web said Wednesday.
Apr 22, 2009 |
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New metasearch engine leaves Google, Yahoo crawling
One day in the not-too-distant future, you'll be able to type a query into an online search engine and have it deliver not Web pages that may contain an answer, but just the answer itself, says Weiyi Meng, ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Google to target ads based on Web surfing habits
(AP) -- Google will use the information it collects on people's Web surfing habits to show more ads tailored to their individual interests.
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Wolfram Alpha Could Answer Questions that Google Can't
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new search engine described as an "electronic brain" could make searching the Internet more intelligent. Called Wolfram Alpha, the search engine computes its own answers rather than looking ...
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft urged not to censor search
Rights groups called on Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft on Friday not to censor their Web search engines one day next week to help protest cyber censorship.
Mar 06, 2009 |
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Ad click-through rate lower than previously thought
The rate of ad clicks from sponsored and non-sponsored links was reported in a recent study conducted by researchers from Penn State and the Queensland University of Technology.
Feb 25, 2009 |
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Tropical cyclone or ISU Cyclone? Semantic science search engine knows that there is a difference
(PhysOrg.com) -- Almost everyone who has used a major internet search engine has had the same experience: Search for "Dodge convertible" and 0.16 seconds later you have 4.3 million links to web pages on dodge ball, Dodge ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 04, 2009 |
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Search website offers a visual alternative
Like most everyone these days, when you need to search the Internet for just about anything, you use Google. Let's face it. Google is the undisputed champion when it comes to Internet searching. It's become so mainstream ...
Jan 07, 2009 |
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