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.
Dragonfly (search engine) Dragonfly (search engine) According to press reports, Dragonfly is an Internet search engine app being prototyped by Google that is designed to be compatible with China's state censorship provisions. Unlike a previous search engine designed by Google for use in China, Dragonfly would not notify users that results or search terms have been censored. The public learned of Dragonfly's existence in August 2018, when "The Intercept" leaked an internal memo written by a Google employee about the project. The search engine is reportedly designed to link users' phone numbers to their search queries and censor websites such as Wikipedia and