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Wikipedia founder aims to break Google stranglehold
Watch out Google -- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales hopes that Wikia Search, a project he spearheads, will break Google's domination as the world's most widely used Internet search engine.
Microsoft acquires semantic search firm Powerset
Microsoft on Tuesday announced it is buying Powerset, a firm which specializes in interpreting the intent of people's Internet searches instead of matching specific words they use.
Does the internet really influence suicidal behavior?
People searching the Internet for information about suicide methods are most likely to come across sites that encourage suicide rather than sites offering help and support, finds a study in this week’s issue of the BMJ.
Study finds you get what you pay for with online Q & A sites
A new study by University of Minnesota computer science and engineering researchers revealed that the answer quality provided by online question-and-answer Web sites, such as Yahoo! Answers and Google Answers, depends on two factors -- how much you pay and how many people contribute to your answer.
Web 2.0: Opening up, or dumbing down?
Are Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, and other Web 2.0 giants the scourge of American culture, laying waste to its 20th-century institutions and dumbing down society?
Researcher leads international effort to create 'proteinpedia'
A researcher at the Johns Hopkins Institute of Genetic Medicine has led the effort to compile to date the largest free resource of experimental information about human proteins. Reporting in the February issue of
Nature Biotechnology, the research team describes how all researchers around the world can access this data and speed their own research.
Universities' alternative to Google launched
An internet search engine rivalling the multimillion pound Google is to be launched at the end of January by The University of Manchester's national data centre Mimas.
Microsoft-Yahoo: Which Products Would Win
While the chance of a Microsoft-Yahoo merger or acquisition is a remote one, it's still a possibility. In analysis compiled from several PC Magazine staff members and analysts, here's what a merger might mean to the products and technologies directly shared by each company. In each case, we've outlined the strengths and weaknesses of each, and attempted to predict what technologies would survive the backroom planning sessions, and what would be discarded. This story was written by Mark Hachman.
