News tagged with search quality

Search engines that learn from searchers

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research aims to create search-engine software that can learn from users by noticing which links they click and how they reformulate their queries when the first results don't pay off.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 08, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Google search gets semantic

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.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (12) | comments 4




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UK researchers rank best online advice for postnatal depression

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at the University of Sussex have identified the top five internet sites offering support for women struggling with postnatal mental illness such as depression or anxiety.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Decoding keys to a healthy life

For 74 years, one of the longest-running studies of normal adult development has been examining not disease and illness, but what may be life’s magic question: How can you live long and happy?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Websites advertising cholesterol-lowering drugs of poor quality

A new study published in the journal Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety reveals that internet sites selling prescription statins directly to consumers are widespread, and that most websites advertising statins for sale t ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

What Google knows about you

Google knows about you. It knows what you've looked for on its search engine. It knows who you're e-mailing most regularly via Gmail. It knows from Google Calendar what you have going on today. And now, all ...

Technology / Internet

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Brain capacity limits exponential online data growth

Scientists have found that the capacity of the human brain to process and record information - and not economic constraints - may constitute the dominant limiting factor for the overall growth of globally stored information. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (11) | comments 25 | with audio podcast

Quality medical journal news releases can help newspapers do a better job informing public

Medical journal press releases are the most direct way that journals communicate with the news media about new research. According to a study in the British Medical Journal, press release quality appears to have an import ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

French judge charges boss of breast implant firm

A French judge on Friday charged the founder of the breast implant company at the heart of a global health scare with "involuntary injuries", his lawyer said.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

French police arrest boss of breast implant company

French police on Thursday arrested Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of the PIP breast implant company that sparked a global health scare by using substandard silicone, as part of a manslaughter probe.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Millions now manage aging parents' care from afar

(AP) -- Kristy Bryner worries her 80-year-old mom might slip and fall when she picks up the newspaper, or that she'll get in an accident when she drives to the grocery store. What if she has a medical emergency and no one's ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

HPV testing: Indications of a benefit in primary screening

Studies currently available provide indications and a "hint" that precursors of cervical cancer can be detected and treated earlier, and consequently tumours occur less often, in women who underwent testing for human papillomavirus ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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