Researchers at EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have combined their knowledge of bacterial genetics and web search algorithms to build a DNA search engine for microbial da... Read more
Researchers at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT have developed a new search engine that outperforms current ones, and helps people to do searches more efficiently. The... Read more
Cast your minds back – if you can – to the days when the web was a jumble of random pages. ‘Web surfing’ consisted, quite literally, of somehow finding a website and then clicking through li... Read more
DO machines speak? If so, do they have a constitutional right to free speech? This may sound like a fanciful question, a matter of philosophy or science fiction. But it’s become a real issue... Read more
Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google’s Sergey Brin Sergey Brin says he and Google co-founder Larry Page would not have been able to create their search giant if the int... Read more
“We don’t want you to know what everyone else knows” YossarianLives, named after the anti-hero of Catch-22, doesn’t tell you what everyone else knows – it seeks to cr... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Nearly all companies with a big Web presence, and search engines in particular, are known for gathering the user’s browsing history and other personal information t... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Computer Scientists Have Developed a New Way of Tracing the Origins and Spread of Ideas Princeton computer scientists have developed a new way of tracing the origins and... Read more
Get ready to start hearing a lot about a startup in Seattle called Wavii. There’s been some buzz building about them, mostly leaks from spurned venture capitalists who’ve desperately wanted... Read more