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"Eric Horvitz is an admitted news junkie. But like most Web surfers, he's been getting an overdose of the same information.

Horvitz and Susan Dumais, both senior Microsoft researchers, are creating technology to make searching for news more effective.

Their project, called NewsJunkie, could help Microsoft develop a search function in Windows to compete with Google. It's also planned as part of MSN's upcoming news page, called Newsbot.

Using principles of artificial intelligence and information retrieval, NewsJunkie keeps track of what a reader has already seen. It reorganizes news stories to rank those with the most new information at the top and push those with repetitive information to the bottom, or filter them out entirely."

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