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Instant Search - The Real Live Search Bing API experiment
21 August 09 08:41 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   

If you’d like to see instant results while you’re typing in your search query try out “ The Real Live Search ” from Long Zheng from istartedsomething – it uses the fast Bing AJAX APIs and the JSON results to give you information as you type.  It’s Read More...

Filed under: Cool Software, Search

A “Search Taste Test” – do you really know the difference?
09 June 09 12:42 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

Michael Kordahi created a way to see how Bing search results compare to the other big search players - it gives you 3 columns of results and you can vote which one has the best results.  If you’re using IE you can also add BlindSearch as a IE search Read More...

Filed under: Search, Bing

Bing Trucks
05 June 09 01:40 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

I’ve been seeing the Bing Trucks around town – take a look if you haven’t seen them Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay) Read More...

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Windows 7 Federated Search Providers
04 May 09 03:39 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

I just updated two of my machines to Windows 7 RC and one of the neatest features is the ability to have Federated Search Providers – simply run an XML configuration file (.osdx) to add a search provider to your machine and you can search directly from Read More...

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F# – Sept CTP available and units of measure checking/inference
30 August 08 10:07 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   

The September 2008 CTP of F# is now available for download.  F# is a functional programming language for the .NET Framework and really should be looked at by scientists/researchers.  Also check out the F# Developer Center on MSDN for more info Read More...

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Environmental Scenario Search Engine Research Project Portal
22 January 08 07:36 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   

Here's a link to a Russian based project - where they are mining environmental data archives.  It even has NASA WorldWind visualization plugins....there is also a web based test site .  Environmental Scenario Search Engine Research Project Portal Read More...

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