Sometimes you need to search the internet, but you don’t know how to spell the word you’re looking for. You only know how to say it. Most modern search engines are pretty good at spelling correction. For example, if you search for elvis preslie, you will be offered the search results for elvis presley. But sometimes that’s [more...]
Suppose you have an image and you want to find similar images on the web? This kind of search is known as image content search, or reverse image search. The technology to do this has been gradually maturing over the years, and at last it seems to be working usefully. Image search engine TinEye is open [more...]
Because Google is such a large organization, there’s considerable interest in its energy consumption. Google has provided some figures, which they say take into account not just the query itself but also activities such as building the search index. That’s a reasonable way to approach the answer, and also one of the easiest to calculate [more...]