Microsoft Academic Search flagship search engine, Bing, and its intelligent personal assistant service, Cortana. “By growing Microsoft Academic Search from a research effort to production,” [Microsoft Research's Kuansan] Wang says, “our goal is to make Bing-powered Cortana the best personal research assistant for our users" Microsoft Academic Search Microsoft Academic Search was a research project and academic search engine retired in 2012. It relaunched in 2016 as Microsoft Academic. Microsoft launched a search tool called Windows Live Academic Search in 2006 to directly compete with Google Scholar. It was renamed Live Search Academic after its first year and then discontinued two years later.
Jinni (search engine) Jinni (search engine) Jinni is a search engine and recommendation engine for movies, TV shows and short films. The service is powered by the Entertainment Genome, an approach to indexing titles based on attributes like mood, tone, plot, and structure. Its availability is via API, in business-to-business licensing, where it impacts businesses like Comcast's Xfinity product (and others whose capabilities benefit from smart entertainment search). The Jinni service included semantic search, a meaning-based approach to interpreting queries by identifying concepts within the content, rather than keywords. The search engine provided a taste-based video discovery experience by mood, plot and other