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Inside the launch of Stephen Wolfram’s new “computational knowledge engine.”On the evening of April 27 a ferocious rain raked the windows beside Jamie Williams’s cubicle as the physicist sat,...
View ArticleSocial Search, without a Social Network
Google’s new +1 button lets friends tune each other’s search results, but so far the company has few connections to draw on.Google may be built on an algorithm for taming the Web, but yesterday the...
View ArticleA Free Database of the Entire Web May Spawn the Next Google
Common Crawl supplies a database of over five billion Web pages in the hope that it will inspire new research or online services.Google famously started out as little more than a more efficient...
View ArticleHow Facebook Could Give Its New Search the Edge
The company’s search engine will become formidable when it includes the text of comments and the vast store of Open Graph data about things outside Facebook.Facebook’s new Graph Search—a feature that...
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