I do a lot of work with textual data files, things like membership lists, race results, and team rosters—the sort of thing you get when exporting from a database or saving a spreadsheet in ...

Dashia is the consumer insights editor for CNET. She specializes in data-driven analysis and news at the intersection of tech, personal finance and consumer sentiment. Dashia investigates economic ...

Heads up: Searching for hair inspiration just got a hundred times easier. Today, Pinterest launched a new technology dubbed “hair pattern tool” that allows users to search for images by hair type. The ...

The trie data structure is one alternative method for searching text that can be more efficient than traditional search approaches. Here's a trie class you can create in C#. The proliferation of ...

Once your database is finished - you've categorized as many contributions as you can, and you've assigned "unknown" codes to all the rest - you're ready to begin compiling what you've got and digging ...

UgCS, a provider of mission planning software for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), and public safety and disaster response UAS expert Airborne Response have developed a comprehensive search capability ...

Conventional wisdom says that search engines are a fundamentally unfair technology – favoring the most popular sites and helping them to become even more popular. This assumption, captured in the term ...