The 2012 presidential campaign is about to get a lot more personal, at least if Google has any say in it.The Washington Post From ACM News | January 12, 2012
Google's popularity was built on its ability to help people find just the right Web pages. Then came the social Web, led by Facebook, where people go to see vast...The New York Times From ACM News | January 12, 2012
Searches for "browser" no longer bring up the Google Chrome home page after Google applied a penalty against the page because of Google's own sponsored post campaign...Search Engine Land From ACM News | January 6, 2012
Imagine a man named Jim. He's applying for a job at Google. Jim knows that the odds are stacked against him. Google receives a million job applications a year.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | December 25, 2011
Researchers at the Broad Institute and Harvard University have developed a tool that can analyze large data sets. Broad Institute From ACM TechNews | December 19, 2011
A new technique for finding relationships between variables in large data sets makes no prior assumptions about what those relationships might be.MIT News Office From ACM News | December 19, 2011
Researchers from Complutense University of Madrid have developed a quantum version of Google's PageRank algorithm that outperforms the world's leading search...Technology Review From ACM News | December 16, 2011
Google's PageRank algorithm is the idea that the importance of a Webpage can be measured by the number of important papers that point toward it.Technology Review From ACM News | December 14, 2011
There was a time not so long ago that buying a car was one of the worst shopping experiences. As you drove off the dealer's lot, you couldn't escape the feeling...The New York Times From ACM News | December 9, 2011
Before he died on Oct. 5, Steve Jobs left clues that he was working on a new product that would revolutionize how we interact with our TVs. "It will have the...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | December 9, 2011
The future of search may look a little like Kirsten Goldenberg, a 14-year-old high-school student in Los Angeles. When she needs help with a homework problem,...Technology Review From ACM News | December 9, 2011
Computer scientists at Paris-based search engine company Exalead have developed Voxalead, a video search service that automatically divides news broadcasts into...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 1, 2011
The organizers of the YaCy free software project hope to one day replace centrally run search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and Bing. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | December 1, 2011
Natural user interface developments, such as Microsoft's Kinect, may indicate the beginning of the end for the mouse.
Gregory Goth From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2011
The field of molecular computing is achieving new levels of control over biochemical processes and fostering sophisticated connections between computer science...Kirk L. Kroeker From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2011
Padua University professor Massimo Marchiori is leading the development of Volunia, a new search engine that could challenge Google's search algorithm and lead...PC World From ACM TechNews | November 21, 2011
Many Google search results will be more timely after Google made a significant change to its search algorithm last week that it said would affect about 35% of...The New York Times From ACM News | November 7, 2011
Censorship is the biggest threat to the development of the Internet, according to Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales.BBC News From ACM News | November 7, 2011