As part of its effort to render more personally relevant Web search results, the company said on Monday it has introduced a geographic aspect to search results based on the location that individual users select as their home location on Google Maps
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Vicinity to offer a geographic searching tool.
Over 60% of the online population are non-English speakers and it is probable the number of non-English speakers is growing faster than English speakers. Recent studies showed that non-English queries and unclassifiable queries have nearly tripled since 1997. Most search engines were originally engineered for English. The main objectives of the workshop are to propose techniques and to evaluate tools which improve the effectiveness of the existing search engines in non-English searching.
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