Microsoft Research Asia's Search Technology
Center
An Overview
Microsoft Research Asia and Live Search have partnered to the Search Technology Center (STC) in Beijing, China. Launched in October of 2005, the center is dedicated to advancing the state-of-the-art in search technology and delivering a more intelligent and powerful search experience to Microsoft online users around the world.
Our mission is to:
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Deliver innovative Search products and services together with Live search
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Accelerate innovations by seamlessly combining research and development in Microsoft Research Asia
- Evolve our search platform into an Internet services platform for the next generation of Internet research and development
Internet Search in China
People at STC understand the local market, the culture, and the language. The center has been actively working with the global Live Search organization to deliver a more competitive Internet search product that covers the core Web, yellow pages, mobile, multimedia and news search. In addition, the center works closely with Microsoft's local Chinese partners such as China Telecom.
Infrastructure
A key part of competing in the global Internet search marketplace is having core infrastructure in place to efficiently manage tens of thousands of servers, hundreds of millions of queries, and billions of documents. The STC infrastructure team aims to improve existing operational infrastructure and move our capabilities to the next level.
Substantial investments are being made in the areas of distributed computing, database technology and operations automation systems. Work in these areas is central to Microsoft's commitment to improving on its role as a competitive player in the global Internet search marketplace.
Next Generation Search
Microsoft is making large investment to transition from plain text search to a structured search experience to provide users more relevant answers and a richer, interactive user experience using those answers. Core investments in classification, document segmentation, machine learning and feedback loops enable STC to create features that infer structure from unstructured web documents and to use that structure in a substantially improved search user experience.
The STC team consists of top Researchers in related areas working hand in hand with Engineers to enable a fast innovation model that bridges fundamental research and product development. By combining both Microsoft's research and development talents, STC is creating one of the most versatile, challenging, and fascinating research and development environments in the IT industry.
Projects
Here are three examples of innovations
that STC is developing to improve the search experience
for our users:
STC News
Search Technology
Center Launches - New Center to Build on Microsoft Research's Solid
Foundation of Innovation Oct 28, 2005
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