Search has become the paradigm for finding and retrieving information in personal computers, within corporations, and on the Internet.

Microsoft Research has teams worldwide focusing on advancing the way users interact with computing devices. This includes search, access, and information management. Microsoft researchers are also investigating ways to advance Internet-scale searching, working on the core technologies for providing the most relevant and freshest search results possible.

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Tools and Services for Researchers

• From Microsoft Research:
  • Dryad and DryadLINQ
    Dryad and DryadLINQ are two complementary tools developed by Microsoft Research to make data-intensive, distributed computing on large-scale clusters accessible to ordinary programmers.
  • Libra Academic Search
    Free computer science bibliography search engine and test-bed for object-level vertical search research at Microsoft Research Asia
  • Search Result Clustering  
    Tools from the Information Retrieval and Mining Group in Microsoft Research Asia
  • SearchTogether: An Interface for Collaborative Web Search  
• SDKs and Web Services from Microsoft:
  • Interactive Virtual Earth SDK
    Provides documentation and implementation guidelines for the Microsoft Virtual Earth map control APIs.
  • Keyword Services Platform
    Contains a set of providers (algorithms) for mining data sources such as search and paid search logs and advertising databases, plus keyword intelligences through a set of Web services APIs. Keyword services include term categorization, term suggestion, keyword extraction, term forecasting, and term monetization.
  • Live Search SDK
    Provides an interface Extensible Markup Language (XML) Web Service through a SOAP API. The Live Search Web Service enables you to submit queries to and return results from the Live Search Engine.
  • MapPoint Web Service
    Provides a programmable Web service that can be used to integrate location-based services such as maps, driving directions, and proximity searches into software applications and business processes.

  • Microsoft adCenter Account
    Tools and services for "targeted reach" campaigns and data-rich reporting

• More Tools and Add-ins from Microsoft:  
  • Web Sandbox Source Code Available under Open Source Apache License 2.0
  • Live Labs Tech Previews
  • SQL Server 2005 Express Absolute Beginner Video #13 – Enabling Full-Text Search in your Text Data
  • Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio

Tools and Services for Researchers

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• Database, HPC, and Cloud Services for Scientists
• Managing Scientific Workflows
• Microsoft Office Addins for Scientists
• Publication and Conference Management for Scientists
• Software Tools for Computational Biology
• Tools for Web Search Research

Microsoft Research Presentations and Workshops

• Virtual Earth and Location Summit, Microsoft Research, April 2008
• SemGrail 2007 Workshop Presentations, Microsoft Research
• Search Summit 2007 Presentations, Microsoft Research, July 2007

Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2008

• Pushing and Pulling Information From the Mexican Dataspace, Genoveva Vargas-Solar at Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2008