New Search Challenges and Opportunities

Like many other computer scientists, the University of Washington's Oren Etzioni is developing new tools for searching the Web's growing morass of text, images, and other content. Credit: The University of Washington

Neil Savage

January 1, 2010

If search engines can extract more meaning from text and better understand what people are looking for, the Web's resources could be accessed more effectively.

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