Earlier this week, consulting firm Marbridge in Beijing said that Baidu was toying with the idea of buying an English language search engine.

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The computer science introduction course teaches basic skills by having students build a Google-like search engine, using the programming language Python.

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Pell says that Powerset's understanding of language means his search engine can actually reward users' full-sentence queries with more relevant, meaningful results than they get from the big search engines now.

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