Internet Services Research Center
As part of a specialized research group, the Internet Services Research Center (ISRC) is focused on all aspects of internet services. We see applications moving to the cloud, with Web search posing deep technical challenges, and with mobility, social networks, data mining, and system structures seeing huge changes. We work to accelerate innovations in search and ad technologies, and partner with other parts of Microsoft to rapidly deliver them to our search products, customers, and advertisers.
Research Groups
- Incubations
The team works to identify hot new opportunities that have a large potential, but which a small team can get rolling. This team builds whole products or features, and does the needed research for creating new technologies that might be needed. - Platforms and Distributed Systems
ISRC-PADS is focused on experimental systems research and in bringing the resulting artifacts into the mainstream of Microsoft’s internet service businesses. - Search Labs
Search Labs is focused on improving the quality of search results and developing new paradigms for enhancing the search user experience. - Search Quality and Cyber-Intelligence Lab
SQ-CIL is improving the security, reliability, performance and quality of search and other Internet services through applied and fundamental research in search quality, distributed systems, and web application development.
Featured Projects
- Helix: Entwining Structure into Web Search
Helix analyzes the Web query and extract structured semantics, maps it to the corresponding structured data sources, and modifies the Web ranking functions to incorporate the results from the structured data.
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