Now a Days Search engines and social networking sites are two important components in our life. Social Networking major MySpace and Facebook have around 110 million and 60 million active users respectively. Yahoo is coming with its own networking site. Yahoo already has 500 million active users. It will convert MyYahoo and Mesh into social networking sites. Twitter is a great success. Consider this airticle:Student twitter out of jail with one words blog. By sending a simple message “arrested” from his cell phone; James Karl Buck helped free himself from an Egyptian jail. Rampant growth social networking sites come with endless spam, violations of privacy, harassments etc.
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Search engine market is looking promising. Google is working on Visual Rank algorithm, which is image recognition software to weight and rank images.VisualRank algorithm will enable Web shopper to select a particular visual attribute, such as a certain style of shoes or a color of ties etc, and then be presented with similar products available from competing Web merchants.


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NextBio unveiled a life science search engine which will enable researcher or clinician to search over 10,000 experiments, 16 million articles, and literally billions of data points. Users can import their own experimental data into the NextBio search engine, share it with the community, and collaborate with others.

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