Google Blog: Find helpful information on the mortgage process in Search. “Buying a house is a big financial decision and having clear, trustworthy information is important. To help people better understand the mortgage process, we collaborated with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to create a new mobile experience in Search. When you search for ‘mortgage’ on your phone, you’ll find a feature that breaks down the complex mortgage process into easy-to-follow steps to help guide you, wherever you may be in the process. It also connects you to a set of useful resources, including news articles, industry definitions and terms, a calculator to assist with payment plans and average mortgage rates. And for those looking for relief and refinance information, we’ll show some of the options available to you.”
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Rochester Institute of Technology: RIT researchers create easy-to-use math-aware search interface
Rochester Institute of Technology: RIT researchers create easy-to-use math-aware search interface. “Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology have developed MathDeck, an online search interface that allows anyone to easily create, edit and lookup sophisticated math formulas on the computer. Created by an interdisciplinary team of more than a dozen faculty and students, MathDeck aims to make math notation interactive and easily shareable, rather than an obstacle to mathematical study and exploration.”
Blockscan: The Search Engine for a Decentralized Web (Medium)
Medium: Blockscan: The Search Engine for a Decentralized Web. “Accessing decentralized, uncensorable websites has long been touted as one of the potential uses for Ethereum…. One challenge remains: users of such sites lack easy ways of discovery. Imagine looking up a topic on the Internet. You wouldn’t need to type an exact URL. Your browser’s native search engine picks out countless suggestions for any particular search item you look for. The same cannot be said of decentralized websites, where even entering exact URLs may not get you to the website you want on mainstream browsers. Enter Blockscan.”
Salesforce: Salesforce Research Develops New Search Engine to Support the Fight Against COVID-19
Salesforce: Salesforce Research Develops New Search Engine to Support the Fight Against COVID-19. “Searching scientific publications requires different techniques from traditional keyword-matching search engines. It’s critical that a COVID-19 search engine interpret the proper meaning in a given search, going beyond finding results based on the frequency with which words appear in documents. And with long documents, it’s valuable to quickly surface relevant passages in search results. COVID-19 Search addresses this by combining text retrieval and NLP — including semantic search, state of the art question answering, and abstractive summarization — to better understand the question and surface the most relevant scientific results.”
Livemint: BitBuddy launches Bitcoin explorer- a web tool to access all Bitcoin statistics
Livemint: BitBuddy launches Bitcoin explorer- a web tool to access all Bitcoin statistics. “The users can access every record of Bitcoin from explorer, including the real-time Bitcoin statistics, mining difficulty rate, and Bitcoin transfer hash. This unique interface can also be used to track and understand all insights of the Bitcoin blockchain. Additionally, it also provides the transaction status done via Bitcoin, a crypto asset.”
Emory University: Rollins Launches CoCites, a Radical New Scientific Search Tool
Emory University: Rollins Launches CoCites, a Radical New Scientific Search Tool. “Searching scientific literature is inefficient and ineffective. A complete search on a topic requires an extensive query that combines all relevant keywords and their synonyms. A simple search retrieves only part of the relevant literature depending on the keywords that are searched. With CoCites, users don’t enter keywords, they enter or select the title of the article for which they would like to find related content. The tool retrieves these other articles through co-citations. Articles that are frequently cited together with the selected paper appear at the top of the search results.”
How to find quoted replies and retweets on Twitter: Try this 10-second trick (CNET)
CNET: How to find quoted replies and retweets on Twitter: Try this 10-second trick. “You can tag a bot like Quoted Replies in a reply to the original tweet, which will then generate a link, but that means you have to let everyone know you’re lurking around a particular tweet. Not ideal. While there are other ways to get the job done, here’s one of the easiest ways to search and find all of the quoted replies and retweets for a particular tweet.”
SE7EN: New web site creates one-stop store for locating streamers throughout platforms
SE7EN: New web site creates one-stop store for locating streamers throughout platforms. “Popdog brings collectively streamers from all completely different platforms into one easy-to-find area. On Popdog, you could find standard streamers, type by games, or search for esports competitions which can be dwell. The web site even features a trending part that exhibits which streamers are outperforming their traditional view counts, one thing that would assist smaller streamers who’re on the rise.”
Google AI Blog: An NLU-Powered Tool to Explore COVID-19 Scientific Literature
Google AI Blog: An NLU-Powered Tool to Explore COVID-19 Scientific Literature. Traditional search engines can be excellent resources for finding real-time information on general COVID-19 questions like ‘How many COVID-19 cases are there in the United States?’, but can struggle with understanding the meaning behind research-driven queries. Furthermore, searching through the existing corpus of COVID-19 scientific literature with traditional keyword-based approaches can make it difficult to pinpoint relevant evidence for complex queries. To help address this problem, we are launching the COVID-19 Research Explorer, a semantic search interface on top of the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), which includes more than 50,000 journal articles and preprints. We have designed the tool with the goal of helping scientists and researchers efficiently pore through articles for answers or evidence to COVID-19-related questions.”
India Today: Kerala university launches Covid-19 search engine for India, will let experts find latest research material
India Today: Kerala university launches Covid-19 search engine for India, will let experts find latest research material. “Though there are dozens of apps in the country that provide information on the coronavirus, the search engine is a first dedicated toward the medical community in India. The idea is that through this search engine scientists, doctors and researchers who are racing to better understand Covid-19 and the novel coronavirus will be able to keep a track of the latest research about the disease and the pandemic it has caused.”
Business Standard: This lawyer’s start-up is building a search engine for legal professionals
Business Standard: This lawyer’s start-up is building a search engine for legal professionals. “If you think lawyers have a cushy life, ask anyone who had to pore over long-drawn cases and make sense of the arguments. Lawyers will tell you how they have to read hundreds of pages manually, sometimes twice or thrice, to be be able to make sense of cases. Identifying and simplifying this part of legal research is at the heart of legal-tech firm Legitquest. The Delhi-based start-up has built artificial intelligence (AI)-based technology to help lawyers with issues, reasoning, decisions, arguments and facts of all the judgments passed by the Supreme Court of India since 1950.”
Express Computer: New AI-powered search engine to fight COVID-19
Express Computer: New AI-powered search engine to fight COVID-19. “University of Waterloo professor Jimmy Lin has spearheaded the creation of a dedicated search engine for those who are engaged in the fight against COVID-19. The system, called Neural Covidex, provides quick and easy access to the Allen Institute for AI’s COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19). CORD-19 is a publicly-available, curated resource of over 45,000 scholarly articles, medical reports, journal articles, and preprints about COVID-19 and the coronavirus family of viruses for use by the global research community.”
BusinessWire: Mendel Launches AI-powered Search Engine to Analyze More Than 50,000 Coronavirus Papers (PRESS RELEASE)
BusinessWire: Mendel Launches AI-powered Search Engine to Analyze More Than 50,000 Coronavirus Papers (PRESS RELEASE). “Mendel, the leader in clinical AI technologies, announced the launch of a new search engine using proprietary AI to absorb more than 50,000 coronavirus research papers and answer questions related to COVID-19. DCM, a global venture capital firm with $4 billion in assets under management, is co-sponsoring this initiative. The search engine is now available for researchers at covid19.mendel.ai.”
Bing Blogs: Stay informed on the coronavirus pandemic with Bing and Microsoft News
Bing Blogs: Stay informed on the coronavirus pandemic with Bing and Microsoft News. “Simply search for ‘covid19’, ‘coronavirus information’, or a related term, and you’ll find a tally of the cases in your geographic region as well as an up-to-date summary of global cases. This information is aggregated across multiple sources such as the Center for Disease Control, the World Health Organization, and other authoritative sources. As the situation is changing rapidly, we’re refreshing the data multiple times per day, and show a timestamp for when we published the latest available data.”
Dallas Innovates: A New App From Two Former SMU Football Players Connects Search With Social
Dallas Innovates: A New App From Two Former SMU Football Players Connects Search With Social. “Vuzag is a new location-based search engine that displays a live snapshot of a user’s local community. The platform helps people get information on local events currently happening. And, it was founded Robert Seals and Daniel Gresham, two former SMU football players.”
