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Search and information retrieval

  1. Diving in the Deep End of the Web 

    November 22, 2004

    By Suzanne Ross, Writer, Microsoft Research The Web is more complex than it seems on the surface. There is a hidden Web that lies below the Web that we see in our daily surfing. This hidden Web contains structured information dynamically generated by online Web…

  2. Find Your Lost Data 

    November 12, 2004

    By Suzanne Ross, Writer, Microsoft Research The more data you have, the more you know The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why have data? Microsoft Researchers have an answer for this old, slightly twisted…

  3. New Ways to Search the Web 

    November 8, 2004

    By Suzanne Ross, Writer, Microsoft Research Sometimes the whole is not greater than the sum of its parts. Sometimes the whole doesn't even represent its parts. Take a Web page for instance. Is all the text on a Web page a variation on the whole?…

  4. Squeeze the Screen 

    October 27, 2004

    By Suzanne Ross, Writer, Microsoft Research If you've never seen some of the ingenious ways that researchers have invented to make viewing data on a small screen easy, you might say, "I'll never do all my computing on a PDA or Smartphone." You might concede…

  5. All the News That’s Fit to Read 

    October 15, 2004

    By Suzanne Ross People read stories to find out what happens next. That's easy enough in a book, but if the story is about real life, and it's online in the news media, it's harder to find out what happens next. There's just too much…