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Facebook Planning New Search Engine
Social networking giant Facebook is reportedly planning to create a new search engine which would help people to navigate on the website better. A Bloomberg Businessweek report said the firm has deployed two-dozen Facebook engineers onto the ambitious project, which aims to improve the search engine currently available on the social network.
According to the report, the project is led by former Google engineer Lars Rasmussen.
The magazine's unnamed sources said that the project is "to help users better sift through the volume of content that members create on the site, such as status updates, and the articles, videos, and other information across the Web that people "like" using Facebook's omnipresent thumbs-up button".
Yandex launches search tool for LHC events at CERN
Russian IT Company Yandex launched a search tool service for retrieving Large Hadron Collider (LHC) events at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. A search tool custom-built by Yandex has been tested for one of four big particle detector experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator.
Yandex's search service has been designed specifically for the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment (LHCb) studying the interactions of b-hadrons, heavy particles containing the bottom quark, also known as the beauty quark. The detector registers particle collisions, or events, with the data being stored for further research. The amount of information accumulated every year may reach thousands of TB, which makes it quite difficult to retrieve specific event types.
Google Chrome Gets Malware Download Protection
Nine months after first being put into testing, the new version of Chrome will at last included filtering against inadvertently downloading malware executables, Google has announced.
Reported as being on the browser’s long list as long ago as April 2011, the version 17 beta includes the ability to relate known malicious websites detected using the software’s Safe Browsing API, blocking downloads hosted on such domains. Read More »