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Microsoft steps up cloud momentum
News At developer conference, Redmond announces production availability of Windows Azure and unveils new services running on its cloud platform.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Ray Ozzie, Muglia, Windows Identity Foundation, Microsoft Corp., network, Conference, Developer
Google adds new depth to complicated searches
News By checking other Web pages for related content as a search is performed, Google says it can handle complicated queries better. Also allows for longer text snippets.
Tags: Search, Web sites, Refinement, Web Page, Google Inc., Wolfram Research, Search Engine, Search Result, Search Technology, blog
Intelligence sifting through the Web
News Interest in the Semantic Web appears to be taking off, with users flocking to social bookmarking sites and search engines incorporating new technology.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Search, Semantic Web, Yahoo! Inc., Search Engine, W3C, social bookmarking, software, natural language
Bing integrates Wolfram Alpha results
News Microsoft's search engine will use Wolfram Alpha computation engine APIs for results in areas including nutrition, health and advanced mathematics.
Tags: Web browsers, Search, nutrition, search engine, Wolfram Alpha, Microsoft Corp., Porter Five Forces, API, Search Result, knowledge
Google, Bing continue gains at Yahoo's expense
News Over last several months fewer and fewer searches have been performed on Yahoo's sites, with market leader Google and upstart Microsoft seeing the benefits.
Tags: Search, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., U.S., Internet search, Asia-Pacific, ComScore Networks Inc., Yahoo Search, barrier
Bing strikes licensing deal with Wolfram Alpha
News Microsoft's search engine has reached some sort of deal with Wolfram Alpha to display Wolfram content in Bing search results, although details are still unclear.
Tags: Web browsers, Business applications, Search, Web services, Branding, Wolfram Research, stock price, TechCrunch, founder, licensing deal
New filters in Google search for speed, news
News Google adds several new filters to its search options panel unveiled in May, letting searchers find results from just the last hour, or results from within Google News and Books.
Tags: Search, Web sites, Web 2.0, Google Inc., advertisement, Web sites, Web Page, search engine company, product manager, Search Result
Wolfram Alpha launches amid glitches
News Myriad problems prevented Wolfram Alpha from going live last week as planned, but the new search engine finally launched a few hours later.
Tags: Search, Twitter, Wolfram Research, Database, Search Engine, EPIC, performance, founder, Illinois, data center
Wolfram Alpha gets supercomputer boost
News Two supercomputers--one of them the 66th fastest in the world at present--will power the Wolfram Alpha site for search, calculation, and data crunching.
Tags: Processors, Business applications, Wolfram Research, Dell PowerEdge Server, Dell PowerEdge, Server, processor, supercomputer, Dell Computer Corp., Processors
Kumo: Already a step behind Google, Yahoo?
News In the months that Microsoft has been testing Kumo, both Yahoo and Google have been working on their own search enhancements. Will Microsoft's update be enough?
Tags: Search, Web services, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Internet Search, News Corp., Kumo, IM, revenue
When supercomputing benchmarks fail to add up
Insight perspective Using benchmarks to choose a supercomputer is more complex than just picking the fastest system, says high-performance computing expert.
Tags: Supercomputing, Benchmarking, IT budgeting, Procurement, Consulting, Jones, performance, HotSpot, benchmarking, IT budgeting
