Google launched its contextual and intelligent search service, Knowledge Graph, only a few months ago.

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SETI's search for intelligent life in outer space may be on ice for the time being, but the search for alien planets that may possibly support life of some sort is now being bolstered by a number of new efforts.

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The search box is now entirely more useful, popping up intelligent cards beneath places you search for.

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Right now the site is geared to those knowledgable about digital signal processing, but in the coming months, anyone -- from a child playing a setiQuest game to an interested adult -- can join the search for intelligent life in the cosmos.

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In it, he claimed that intelligent alien life almost certainly exists and that the search for it is valuable.

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So far, that app is making intelligent use of the shared functions of the social and search giants, and the value of a fast (and, in alien data environments, fairly cheap) map not at the mercy of spotty local internet services should not be underestimated.

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The results are very intelligent, usually placing the stuff you want higher in the listings than other search sites do.

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Started in late 1998, the space-alien hunt has recruited the owners of 2.5 million PCs, tapping their machines' idle processing time to search small chunks of radio telescope data for patterns that might signal intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos.

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