Major Internet Names Supplying Research Centers

In reality, the internet is one giant research center. People flock to the world wide web in search of information and simply entering a search term into a search engine can be considered a form of research. However, research can often be more involved than just entering a term and finding just what you’re looking for. Indeed, there are plenty of internet searches that require you to dig deep in a page to find exactly what you are looking for. Yahoo and Microsoft have thrown their hats in the ring in order to provide you with efficient research services. Here are what the internet giants have to offer.

1.) Yahoo Research! Yahoo has long been one of the highest rated websites in terms of sheer traffic on the internet for quite some time. Yahoo employs a team of scientists who mine the large data sets available to Yahoo! for useful data analysis. These scientists employed by yahoo! publish high level scientific work available in publication and technical reports available right on the yahoo! research website.

2.) Microsoft Research- Microsoft employs about 800 researchers in a variety of fields including sociologists and physicists. They are located around the world and their specialty areas come through in research pertaining to software engineering and computer science. Like Yahoo! Research, a majority of the findings from their research team are available right on the website.

The fact that these internet giants are so serious about their research centers is impressive. They host large teams of high level researchers in order to stay on the cutting edge of developments in our society. Check these sites out for some impressive research documents.

Can Anyone Take Down Google?

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Microsoft’s personal search engine Bing has been receiving a lot of attention in the recent weeks. It appears that they are making a strong marketing push to make Bing the top search engine choice, replacing the king of all search engines, Google.

Google is more than just a search engine for most; it’s a way of life. When a search engine becomes its own verb, then it has officially made a big impact. So with all the press for Bing and the marketing push, what the world wants to know is if anyone can really knock off Google.

The truth is that it isn’t entirely out of the question. For those that believe that Google is the same kind of power and monopoly that Microsoft was, they are sorely mistaken. Google is a powerful company capable of a lot, but they are in no way, shape, or form the same kind of monopoly that Microsoft possessed, or possesses.

When Mircosoft had begun, they had created the Windows system which computers operated from. The more people that used Windows, the harder it was for anyone else to defy convention and use anything else, since it was what everyone is using.

Google can and does feel the effects of that kind of influence, just never quite to that degree. At this point in time, no matter how popular Google becomes, people will always have a choice.

With that being said, it would be possible for someone to overtake Google as the best search engine but it would have to be, far and away, the best. If someone needs to search for Los Angeles apartments, they are going to be inclined to use Google. Not because everyone else uses it, but because right now it is the best search engine around and that’s all that really matters.

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Facebook-Bing Tie Up to Beat Google Search

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The Facebook and Bing tie-up seems a threat to the Google search engine. Fuelled by the idea to make search more personable, this alliance will bring in new technologies that Google might not have. The two companies want search from being the traditional querying for pages to making it more of a personal experience.

Bing is hoping that this partnership will get it a larger share in the search engine market. To beat Google in its own den is tough. Google is now a word that is synonymous with searching information on the Internet. After being in the search engine space for so long, it’s really going to be a paradigm shift if Bing beats Google in the search engine market.

Bing has started off with adding a feature called “Liked by your friends”. Search results from the Bing search engine will have this new feature. This makes results more personable. You must be logged into your Facebook account to get this. But Bing has said that it will not share information with Facebook. If you are searching for something, Bing will not share your search information with Facebook. Also, the personable search feature is not imposed on you. You can either select this feature or deselect it, and the Bing search engine will not add this feature to your search results.

Another strong feature of the Bing-Facebook partnership is the Facebook Profile Search. Bing will scan a person’s network on Facebook. It then uses this network data to modify the search results of this user. What we can see here is a social distance kind of algorithm that bases the relevancy of search results based on the user’s relationships with others on his or her Facebook account.

The strong development on the Bing-Facebook front is something that Google needs to ponder about. All said and done; only time will tell if Bing does become the number one search engine. Until then it’s wait and watch.