The Little Search Engine That Could
Redmond, Wash. — In Microsoft’s expensive, decadelong battle against Google’s search engine, no detail is too small. Derrick Connell, a Microsoft vice president in charge of the engineering side of the 4,000-person team that builds the company’s Bing Web search, takes work home with him every weekend. Connell reviews lists of common queries people type into the search boxes at Google.com and Bing.com. His team has spliced the universe...
China’s Internet Censorship Goes Beyond Borders
China has moved beyond censoring Internet content seen by its own citizens to using a new cyberweapon researchers have dubbed the Great Cannon to silence critics around the world, according to a report released Friday. The first use of this capability was a weeks-long attack against websites that offer tools to help users evade Chinese censorship. By sending crippling amounts of Web traffic, the attacks attempted to knock offline the...
