Search Engines

The world's most popular search engine, serving 8.5 billion requests every day, is getting a complete overhaul, and the experience of looking for information online will never be the same.

In a fight against "offensive or clearly misleading" results that make up about 0.25-percent of daily search traffic, Google has outlined new efforts to stymie the spread of fake news and other low-quality content like unexpected offensive materials, hoaxes and baseless conspiracy theories.​

With text and images already covered, Google’s latest advancement expands its existing image recognition AI into the realm of video, promising a future where we can easily search through video content that is automatically assigned tags by an AI system.

Kudos to Google for infusing its search engine with warm, human touches like daily homepage doodles and abundant Easter eggs. Join New Atlas as we count down our favorite little jokes and bonuses within Google search results.

NASA has partnered with DARPA to develop technology that allows for the indexing of Deep Web content. The agency plans to turn the tool towards the wealth of data collected by its numerous spacecraft, as well as its huge archive of published scientific data.

SciNet combines a conventional search interface with a radar-like interactive cloud of related keywords that can be combined or dragged toward/away from the center to improve results. It's intended especially for complex and exploratory searches and for overcoming the vocabulary mismatch problem.

At this juncture in time, humanity does not know how to travel into the past, or even if such a concept has any meaning. So if you are an astrophysicist who wants to discover something about time travel, what do you do? You look for time travelers on Twitter.

On Monday, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced a sweeping censorship plan that would block internet users in the United Kingdom from accessing online pornography unless they specifically request otherwise.

Google's competitor in China, Baidu, is reportedly making its own Google Glass competitor.

Facebook has unveiled a personalized, social search engine, known as Graph Search.

Google has added Search by Image, Voice search and Instant Pages to its search engine for desktop computers.

Google has conducted sneaky experiments to prove that Microsoft's Bing is copying Google results in order to make its own search results better.