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Microsoft Uses Human Computing Game To Tune Bing
Al writes "Microsoft researchers have come up with a novel way to fine-tune the algorithms behind the company's new search engine, Bing: a game that harnesses human computing power to improve the results. Called Page Hunt, the game (which of course requires Silverlight to run) shows users a web page and asks them to figure out a search query that should produce the page within the first five results. The idea is to better understand user behavior and expectations and ultimately improve its search algorithms. Other human-computing projects have sought to digitize out-of-print text (reCAPTCHA) and image labeling (Google Image Labeler). Can Microsoft use a similar approach to gain the edge over its rival? Or does Google already have the edge with SearchWiki, which lets searchers re-rank its results?"
Sometimes I hear a hum that seems to be coming from somewhere distant. It is a directional sound. If I turn my head, I can locate which direction it comes from. But if I move around to another position and turn my head, it sounds like it's coming from somewhere else. It's a faint sound that sounds like someone from far away is on a motorcycle revving it up and down, or turning a blender on and off, or turning their vacuum cleaner on and off. It seems to come and go. Sometimes I can hear it, sometimes not. Sometimes I hear it during the day, sometimes during the night. Most of the time I notice it at night just because I am trying to go to sleep. The strange thing is, if I put in ear plugs, I can still hear it. This seems to be a new phenomena that I haven't noticed but in the past few months. Anybody else notice this or am I just crazy?
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Oh bollocks!
Ah, so what you're saying is there is some issue with searching for the phrase "why is microsoft word so expensive," and you provided links to demonstrate the issue. However, the links no longer demonstrate the issue because they're flooded with blog articles. But you still don't explain the issue.
So what I learned from your comment is: a) there is some issue with bing or google. Why is this comment modded +4?