Microsoft's Cortana artificial intelligence (AI) personal assistant for Windows Phone 8.1 is about to get a whole lot smarter, thanks to the software giant’s decision to integrate academic data within its Bing search engine.
From Silicon Republic:
From Silicon Republic:
From October, Cortana – Microsoft's answer to Apple's Siri – will prominently feature academic research on search pages.Microsoft to smarten up Cortana and Bing with academic research
Microsoft said that instead of treating scholarly information as a separate search engine - as competitors do - this information will become a first-class citizen in Bing search results.
“Microsoft Academic Search is evolving from a research project to a production effort that will leverage the full capability of Microsoft’s flagship search engine, Bing,” says Kuansan Wang, director of the Internet Services Research Centre.
