Earlier this week, consulting firm Marbridge in Beijing said that Baidu was toying with the idea of buying an English language search engine.

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The computer science introduction course teaches basic skills by having students build a Google-like search engine, using the programming language Python.

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Pell says that Powerset's understanding of language means his search engine can actually reward users' full-sentence queries with more relevant, meaningful results than they get from the big search engines now.

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Infocious was a Web technology company that had developed a natural-language-augmented Web search engine.

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But the move could spur millions of websites to retool their Web page by changing what's called a "markup language" so the search engine could more easily locate them under the new system, said Larry Cornett, a former Web-search executive at Yahoo Inc.

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Generally posed in natural language, human-asked questions are search engine lightning rods for companies that produce content on the fly.

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Grokker acts as a plug-in that sits on top of a search engine and, by reading tags written into the data with the XML software language, arranges the results of a search into a ring of spheres or an array of squares labeled to show each one's relationship.

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Now the situation has a new wrinkle: the Chinese language publication Beijing Business Today is reporting that Qihoo has launched a version of its So.com search engine optimized for mobile device, according to the Marbridge Daily newsletter.

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