Business Impact The President of Search Giant Baidu Has Global Plans Ya-Qin Zhang expects investments in artificial intelligence and other technologies to help turn his company into a global leader. by Tom Simonite 2017-06-27T07:00:00-04:00
Artificial Intelligence The First Visual Search Engine for Scientific Diagrams A machine-vision algorithm has learned to analyze and categorize scientific figures. by Emerging Technology from the arXiv 2016-05-27T11:44:00-04:00
News Why Facebook's Search Engine Won't Be Anything Like Google's Trying to match Google’s immense index of the Web would be very costly—but Facebook could instead build search on top of the data we’ve already given it. by Tom Simonite 2012-10-03T00:00:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines Google's New Brain Could Have a Big Impact The Knowledge Graph is rapidly learning about the world. It promises to transform more than just search. by Tom Simonite 2012-06-14T00:00:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines As Google Tinkers with Search, Upstarts Gain Ground Niche search engines Blekko and DuckDuckGo have exploded in popularity in recent months. by Tom Simonite 2012-06-04T00:00:00-04:00
News Data Analysis for the People Wolfram Alpha can now analyze data you provide, so you can do things like map out your e-mail relationships. by Tom Simonite 2012-02-07T15:51:00-05:00
View How Wired Turned Creative Commons into a Link Marketing Scheme Wired is giving away its library of images under a creative commons license because it believes information wants to be free—right? by Christopher Mims 2011-11-08T17:28:00-05:00
Intelligent Machines Google Makes Web Pages Load Instantly The Chrome browser will soon silently fetch pages as you scan search results so that they load without delay. by Tom Simonite 2011-06-14T00:00:00-04:00
News Tracking Down Twitter's Best Rumor Spreaders A new approach could help marketers target users with the most influence. by Erica Naone 2011-06-08T00:00:00-04:00
News How Useful Is Personalized Search? Research suggests that Google’s personalized results may not be much better than the ordinary kind. by Erica Naone 2011-04-11T00:00:00-04:00
