From Wired
Allen Institute for AI Eyes the Future of Scientific Search
By Cade Metz
Google changed the world with its PageRank algorithm, creating a new kind of internet search engine that could instantly sift through the world’s online information and, in many cases, show us just what we wanted to see. But that was a long time ago. As the volume of online documents continues to increase, we need still newer ways of finding what we want....
“They need a way to deal with this overload,” says Marti Hearst, a professor at the University of California Berkeley whose research focuses on search engines. “And with improvements in user interface design and AI, we are seeing tools that can make it easier.”...