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.
Distributed search engine decentralized search engine project launched in August 2018 aiming to build fully decentralized search service on top of decentralized web. It shares advertising revenue to both content providers and peers that participate in indexing and ranking operations. Dweb.page is an open source webpage that lets you share and search content on the distributed web based on IPFS. The search engine is running inside the webpage and uses a subscriber system to load relevant metadata. Distributed search engine A distributed search engine is a search engine where there is no central server. Unlike traditional centralized search engines, work such as crawling,