China develops new search engine technology
Scientists from the Taiyuan University of Technology, Liu Wei and Chen Junjie, have developed a technology which might return better results based on users search query. Though the technology seems to be nothing new and relates to meta search, the team believes that their “intelligent agent search” can return accurate results when a search for something like “apple” will only return fruit related results (instead of Apple computers) when that’s what people were looking for.
The Chinese government has a long standing policy of censoring its Internet population. Decisions to remove content from search engines by companies like Google, for example, have been front page news. Still, those imposed limitations have not stopped scientists there from creating new technologies, which are designed to provide the foundation for more accurate searches.
