While not the pioneer of Search ads, Google has had a stronghold on intent-driven search for 25 years, with billions of queries a day on its venerable search engine results page, showing millions of ...

Abstract: In this paper, we study an online cost optimization problem for distributed data access. The goal of this problem is to dynamically create and delete data copies in a multi-server ...

Driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, Microsoft is internally projecting that water use at its data centers will more than double by 2030 from 2020, including in places that face shortages.

Microsoft has committed to “paying its way” to ensure its data centers will not ramp up residential utility rates, becoming the first major hyperscaler to publicly commit to a comprehensive framework ...

We introduce the “Shopping Queries Data Set”, a large dataset of difficult search queries, released with the aim of fostering research in the area of semantic matching of queries and products. For ...