The engines of change
Friday, November 5, 2010 - 10:00
in Mathematics & Economics
In today's wired world, search engines have changed the way people find data, and social searches are making it even easier to find exactly what you're looking for, with a little help from your friends. For example, a recent partnership between Facebook and Microsoft enables Facebook users searching on Microsoft's Bing to see their friends' faces in the search results next to web pages their friends have "liked" and shared online.