Although librarians adopted Internet technology quickly, they initially dismissed search engines, which duplicated tasks they considered integral to their field. Their eventual embrace of the technology required a reinvention ...
Social Sciences
Aug 7, 2013
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Microsoft plans an update to its Windows 8 system to address some of the complaints and incorporate other feedback received since the radical makeover to the operating system came out in October.
Software
Jun 5, 2013
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Microsoft has extended a guarantee that provides Yahoo with financial protection as part of the two companies' Internet search partnership.
Business
May 7, 2013
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Where you are and what you're doing increasingly play key roles in how you search the Internet. In fact, your search may just conduct itself. This concept, called "contextual search," is improving so gradually the changes ...
Internet
May 2, 2013
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U.S. Internet advertising revenue grew 15 percent to a record $36.6 billion in 2012, with mobile ad revenue growing faster than other types, according to a new report Tuesday.
Business
Apr 16, 2013
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Yahoo! on Wednesday announced that it has bought Jybe, the startup behind a smartphone application that makes local entertainment or dining recommendations based on what people like.
Internet
Mar 20, 2013
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Sergey Brin envisions Google's Internet glasses hitting the market this year with an eye toward freeing people from unsocial habits engendered by "emasculating" smartphones.
Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 27, 2013
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Ads pegged to Google search results can be racially biased because of how certain names are associated with blacks or whites, according to a new study.
Internet
Feb 4, 2013
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Searching for video recordings regularly pushes search engines to their limit. The truth of the matter is that purely automatic algorithms are not enough; user knowledge has to be harnessed, too. Now, researchers are making ...
Software
Jan 7, 2013
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US regulators scheduled an announcement Thursday on their lengthy antitrust probe of Google, amid reports a voluntary settlement was likely.
Business
Jan 3, 2013
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