http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Google rules the roost when it comes to Internet search and has easily brushed aside efforts by Yahoo!, Microsoft and others to knock it off its perch. http://www.physorg.com/news161629414.html Technology Sat, 16 May 2009 07:07:39 EST news161629414 At a recent IEEE technology conference, UC San Diego electrical engineers presented a solution to their problem with the song "Bohemian Rhapsody," -and it's not that they don't like this hit from the band Queen. The electrical engineers' issue with "Bohemian Rhapsody" is that it is too heterogeneous. With its mellow piano, falsetto vocals, rock opera sections and crazy guitar solos, Bohemian Rhapsody is so internally varied that machine learning algorithms at the heart of their experimental music search engine have trouble labeling the song. The solution presented at the 2009 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Taiwan could lead to improvements in the electrical engineers' song labeling and search engine system. http://www.physorg.com/news161607335.html Technology Fri, 15 May 2009 11:56:21 EST news161607335 (AP) -- Millions of people were cut off from Google Inc.'s search engine, e-mail and other online services Thursday, sparking a flurry of frustrated venting that served as a reminder of society's growing dependence on Google's technology. http://www.physorg.com/news161526619.html Technology Thu, 14 May 2009 13:30:37 EST news161526619 After Microsoft and Intel, the next big US technology giant to find itself in the sights of EU competition regulators may be Google with its ubiquitous Internet search engine and online ad business. http://www.physorg.com/news161442321.html Technology Wed, 13 May 2009 14:05:51 EST news161442321 (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 oracle-like ability to spit out answers and make calculations. http://www.physorg.com/news161441956.html Technology Wed, 13 May 2009 13:59:51 EST news161441956 (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 might upset the creators of the material highlighted in Google's results. http://www.physorg.com/news161364058.html Technology Wed, 13 May 2009 05:00:08 EST news161364058 (AP) -- The chief executive of Internet search engine Ask.com, Jim Safka, is leaving for personal reasons a little more than a year after he took the post. http://www.physorg.com/news161372496.html Technology Tue, 12 May 2009 18:42:03 EST news161372496 Greece's data protection agency Monday barred Google from taking any more images on the nation's streets for its Street View feature, pending "additional information" from the US search engine service. http://www.physorg.com/news161276391.html Technology Mon, 11 May 2009 16:00:32 EST news161276391 (PhysOrg.com) -- Currently, there's a lot of hype and skepticism surrounding the latest "Google rival," a so-called search engine named Wolfram Alpha. In the near future, anyone with Internet access will be able to freely visit www.wolframalpha.com and investigate how it works. In a media webinar earlier today, Wolfram Alpha's creator, Stephen Wolfram, said the site should be launching "in a bit over a week." Wolfram also showed off his ambitious project by demonstrating a variety of search queries and answering questions from journalists. http://www.physorg.com/news161024785.html Technology Fri, 08 May 2009 19:44:35 EST news161024785 Science and engineering are advancing rapidly in part due to ever more powerful computer simulations, yet the most advanced supercomputers require programming skills that all too few U.S. researchers possess. At the same time, affordable computers and committed national programs outside the U.S. are eroding American competitiveness in number of simulation-driven fields. http://www.physorg.com/news160411089.html Technology Fri, 01 May 2009 15:38:32 EST news160411089 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. http://www.physorg.com/news159778276.html Technology Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:51:48 EST news159778276 Nearly undetectable from the ground, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used by the military to scan terrain for possible threats and intelligence. Now, fuel cell powered UAVs are taking flight as an Office of Naval Research (ONR)-sponsored program to help tactical decision-makers gather critical information more efficiently... and more quietly. http://www.physorg.com/news159188609.html Technology Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:04:52 EST news159188609 (AP) -- Innovative digital pioneers or reckless cyber pirates? The founders of file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay are either heroes or villains depending on whom you ask. http://www.physorg.com/news159025206.html Technology Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:40:45 EST news159025206 (AP) -- The European Union started legal action against Britain on Tuesday for not applying EU data privacy rules that would restrict an Internet advertising tracker called Phorm from watching how users surf the Web. http://www.physorg.com/news158927479.html Technology Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:32:03 EST news158927479 Google has confirmed that it is going to start adding a map of local findings to search results for things like "pizza," "burger" and "dentist," something that Google watchers have been buzzing about for months. http://www.physorg.com/news158435300.html Technology Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:48:47 EST news158435300 (PhysOrg.com) -- Looking for images on the internet can be a frustrating business. Whether you want the perfect sunset over the sea or the London skyline by night, youre dependent on people to describe the images on their web pages. Now Imense Ltd, a high-tech Cambridge start-up, has announced new investment to help them become the Google of image searching, using their revolutionary technology. http://www.physorg.com/news157738827.html Technology Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:21:57 EST news157738827 (AP) -- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak - currently strutting his stuff as a competitor on the ABC show "Dancing With the Stars" - is joining the advisory board of search startup DeepDyve. http://www.physorg.com/news157218077.html Technology Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:42:00 EST news157218077 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, a professor of computer science at Binghamton University, State University of New York. http://www.physorg.com/news157205720.html Technology Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:16:17 EST news157205720 (AP) -- Google Inc. prides itself on setting trends, but it appears to be copying some of its smaller rivals with the latest refinements to the way it displays Internet search results. http://www.physorg.com/news157140195.html Technology Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:03:55 EST news157140195 Google on Tuesday modified its globally popular Internet search service to understand relationships between words, as the company bids to better grasp what Web users are looking for. http://www.physorg.com/news157129621.html Technology Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:07:43 EST news157129621 As the global automobile industry considers alternative energy sources to replace the traditional internal combustion engine, Jessie Pacheco, a mail clerk at Camp Pendleton, has been making his rounds to Marines in General Motors (GM) Chevrolet Equinox fuel cell vehicles (FCVs). The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has sponsored the GM FCVs at Camp Pendleton since 2006 with two more scheduled to arrive later this year. http://www.physorg.com/news156600088.html Technology Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:02:10 EST news156600088 (PhysOrg.com) -- Car manufacturers aspire to create hydrogen-powered vehicles that could one day allow energy-efficient, cost-effective travel that emits no greenhouse gases or other pollutants. To further that effort, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have devised new combustion strategies for hydrogen engines. http://www.physorg.com/news156443378.html Technology Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:30:20 EST news156443378 (PhysOrg.com) -- Shock waves are a well tested phenomenon on a large scale, but scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory and their collaborators from Wayne State University and Cornell University have made a breakthrough that reveals the interaction between shockwaves created by high-pressure supersonic fuel jets. http://www.physorg.com/news156088475.html Physics Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:55:12 EST news156088475 (AP) -- Google will use the information it collects on people's Web surfing habits to show more ads tailored to their individual interests. http://www.physorg.com/news156001418.html Technology Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:49:38 EST news156001418 In the world of search engines, clicks mean cash, and in a sluggish economy, companies can benefit by maximizing click-throughs to their Web sites from search engines. http://www.physorg.com/news155994477.html Technology Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:48:33 EST news155994477 (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 them up in a large database, as Google and many other search engines currently do. With its computational abilities, Wolfram Alpha could lead to new types of questions, answers and computations that today's search engines can't handle. http://www.physorg.com/news155826981.html Technology Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:16:55 EST news155826981 The founder of young Internet search engine Mahalo explained on Thursday how a convicted hacker wound up a cherished member of their team. http://www.physorg.com/news155538607.html Technology Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:10:55 EST news155538607 Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed it is testing a new Internet search engine it hopes will power the US software giant out of distant third place in a market dominated by Google. http://www.physorg.com/news155324905.html Technology Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:49:01 EST news155324905 A Belgian court on Monday fined Internet search engine Yahoo! 55,000 euros (69,300 dollars) for failing to hand over personal details of users suspected of committing fraud. http://www.physorg.com/news155230765.html Technology Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:40:03 EST news155230765 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. http://www.physorg.com/news154786609.html Technology Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:17:23 EST news154786609