Richard McCreadie, a research student in the School of Computing Science, has seen a recent research project form the cornerstone of two articles published in world-renowned publications.

Richard’s work investigates how effective Google and Microsoft’s search engines have been in limiting the amount of irrelevant or useless information, generated by online ‘content farms’, from search engine results.

You can read the full articles, containing further details on Richard’s work here:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228436.200-inside-search-engines-war-on-bad-results.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/google-and-bing-fight-off-content-farms-in-effort-to-improve-online-searches/2011/12/15/gIQANOsn4O_story.html

First published: 5 January 2012

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