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Wolfram Alpha 'Knowledge Engine' is Like a Modern Farmer's Almanac
May 08, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Wolfram Alpha Could Answer Questions that Google Can't
Mar 09, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Swiss privacy watchdog to sue Google Street View
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc.'s unstoppable drive to map and photograph the world has run into an immovable object - Switzerland's strict tradition of personal privacy.
Faster searches key to a greener web
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Faster internet search engine processors could be the key to reducing the environmental impact of the worldwide web, according to scientists at the University of Glasgow.
Google's operating system escalates Microsoft duel (Update)
Jul 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc. is hoping to gain greater control over how personal computers work with its plans to develop a free operating system that will attack Microsoft Corp.'s golden goose - its long-dominant ...
If at first you don't succeed, let the search engine try
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 05, 2009 |
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No matter how good a search engine is, it is sometimes necessary to change the search terms to get the information you need. But what if you did not have to change the search terms yourself? What if the search engine could ...
New Web tool WolframAlpha launches test run
May 16, 2009 |
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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.
From a Queen song to a better music search engine (w/Video)
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 15, 2009 |
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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. ...
Google glitch disrupts search engine, e-mail
May 14, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Mysterious 1934 Disappearance of Explorer Everett Ruess in Utah Solved
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 30, 2009 |
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The mysterious disappearance of Everett Ruess, a 20-year-old artist, writer and footloose explorer who wandered the Southwest in the early 1930s on a burro and who has become a folk hero to many, has been ...
Google News launches Twitter feed
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Google News, the news aggregation site run by the Internet search giant announced the launch of the @googlenews Twitter feed in a post on the Google News blog on Monday.
Boom times ahead for mobile Web access
Apr 24, 2009 |
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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.
Google refines searches for pictures and news
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Google on Monday unveiled software tools that let people search the Internet using pictures or chronologically organize results of queries for news.
Grid helps find one picture in a million
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 31, 2009 |
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(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 ...
New metasearch engine leaves Google, Yahoo crawling
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 25, 2009 |
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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, ...
