Does the superior quality of search results from dominant firms like Google stem primarily from better algorithms or from access to larger volumes of user-generated data?

One of the world's biggest companies has found itself in hot water. Google is dealing with the effects of a massive leak that claimed to expose the inner workings of its search engine. The leak came ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have demonstrated how web search engine algorithms can be applied to enhance the protection of critical ...

A key question in artificial intelligence is how often models go beyond just regurgitating and remixing what they have learned and produce truly novel ideas or insights. A new project from Google ...