Next-Generation Search

• Updating Search
  We need to reimagine the role of search engines and their sources of data.
• What's Microsoft's Bing Strategy?
  Nipping at Google's heels, Bing focuses on refining product-related searches.
• Making Search Social
  A new engine can turn a difficult search into a communal quest.
• More-Searchable Flash
  Information from millions of Web pages that use the animation software is now available to search engines.
• Opening Search to Semantic Upstarts
  Yahoo's new open-search platform is giving semantic search a helping hand.
• Searching as a Team
  An innovative tool aims to help users search the Internet together.
• Building a Better Search Engine
  A new natural-language system is based on 30 years of research at PARC.
• Q&A: Peter Norvig
  Google's director of research talks about the evolution of Web search.
• Digging Deeper in Web Search
  A personalization search tool reveals links buried deep within page results.
• Better Search in Virtual Worlds
  Second Life's new search tool helps users find 3-D objects.
• Wolfram Alpha and Google Face Off
  Our exclusive test shows how the two Web engines compare when given the same queries.
• How Twitter Could Bring Search Up to Speed
  Some say that Twitter may be as important to real-time search as YouTube is to video.
• A Smarter Search for What Ails You
  Software searches through medical information by analyzing the structure of sentences in a new way.
• Microsoft Searches for Group Advantage
  A new search algorithm looks for connections between people.
• A Google Killer Stumbles
  Cuil's rough launch shows the difficulty of challenging major search engines.
• Search Engines' Chinese Self-Censorship
  U.S.-based search engines are choosing what they censor in China and could be blocking more than they have to.
• A New Perspective on Search Results
  Google is experimenting with different ways to serve up search results. But will any of them stick?
• Social Search
  A new website will offer personalized search results based on the user's social network.
• Jennifer Chayes
  The director of the new Massachusetts-based Microsoft Research lab wants to use mathematics to design better search engines, recommendation systems, and online auctions.
• Wikipedians Promise New Search Engine
  But Google is likely to be a far harder target than Encyclopaedia Britannica.
• Google Takes Search Real-Time
  Search giant compresses the time frame of its results from minutes to seconds.
• Semantic search company
  A new service mines the contents of Web pages looking for meaning and relevance.
• Fewer Ads, More Clicks
  Search engines get smarter at predicting when we'll respond to a pitch.