Have you ever wanted to see what interests Google employees? Now you can. Google has combined research written by Googlers in Papers Written by Googlers. Currently, there are a variety of sections that are broken down into the following:

Algorithms and Theory
Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining
Audio, Video, and Image Processing
Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing
Education
Human-Computer Interaction
Hypertext and the Web
Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Operating Systems
Science
Security, Cryptography, and Privacy
Software Engineering

Pretty heavy duty stuff and very computer-science oriented.

For search enthusiasts, tedster has found two really great papers entitled Finding Near-Duplicate Web Pages: A Large-Scale Evaluation of Algorithms by Monika Henzinger and Structured Models for Fine-to-Coarse Sentiment Analysis by Ryan McDonald et al. Ted believes that these two papers can shape the future of search, especially the latter one which deals with semantic processing.

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