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Dancing with Jimmy Wales in 'Second Life'
Insight Wikipedia's founder visits CNET's virtual theater to talk about the free, open encyclopedia, his for-profit company and more.
Microsoft's Plan B for search
News Moving past the Yahoo saga, the software giant is eyeing semantic search engine Powerset as a way of closing the gap with Google.
Tags: Search, Web services, Web sites, Web 2.0, Internet advertising, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Search Engine, job, professor
Microsoft on search: We'll dig deeper
News The software giant says it can do a better job than Google by paying closer attention to your search patterns.
Tags: Search, Internet advertising, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Internet Search Advertising, Search Engine, Advertisement, payment, Search Result, San Jose
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Tags: Open Source, Article, online help, Encarta.com, Wikipedia Article, software, Wikipedia
Microsoft aims to build a better thesaurus
News Borrowing techniques used in machine translation, a team of researchers in Redmond believes it has found a better way to serve up synonyms.
Tags: Business applications, Mobile applications, Microsoft Corp., machine translation, Intranet, Wikipedia, TechFest, product development, researcher, Microsoft Surface
Wikipedia's open-source label conundrum
News The open-source label doesn't really fit Wikipedia. "Free-for-all," in fact, may be a better match.
Tags: Linux, Open source
Wikipedia rival debuts
News Citizendium is a community encyclopedia that offers Wikipedia-like content with a few editorial controls.
Tags: Web sites, Web services
Last week in wikis
News Wikipedia has come under fire for recent inaccuracies, raising ethical and legal questions.
Tags: Legal
Wikipedia co-founder plans 'expert' spinoff
News Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger plans to launch an alternative to the free online encyclopedia this week.
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