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Engineering & Technology: Issue 11

21 June 2008

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Featured article

Next generation

Search: the next generation

The more we come to rely on search engines, the more we encounter their shortcomings. With public searchers like Google lurching toward ever-more commercial business models, should organisations now consider building their own search engines? We find out.

Also in this issue

  • Banking with a green conscience

    The 2003 New York power outage has spurred one bank to invest in alternative energy.


  • Cloning cures

    Ethically controversial human-animal embryos could provide cures for a number of intractable diseases.


  • Analysis: charged debate

    Considering Manchester's plans to transform transport in the city.


  • Spam or ham?

    A new approach to dealing with spam in your inbox.


  • Engineering heritage: down and up

    Our new heritage section begins with a visit to an unusual English cliff tramway.


  • Game on for acceleration

    Graphics may be the way forward for desktop processors.


  • Doomed!

    A crisis of confidence has hit the chipmakers, but are their fears justified?


  • The final frontier

    The landing of NASA's Phoenix craft on Mars on 25 May shows that robotics are to play a leading role in space exploration in the future.


  • Bright future for AGV's

    There are two diverse paths for the future of AGV's extremely simple and inexpensive, or complicated or sophisticated.


  • More gas than wind

    Landfill contributes the largest proportion of renewable energy in the UK. So why don't we know more about it?


  • Brewing biomass

    E&T reports on the International Biomass Combustion case studies


  • The power of plants

    A new process for creating components for biofuels is paving the way for a new generation of green fuels.


  • The roots of search

    Web users now depend on the search functions to navigate their way to information: be it mission-critical market data or family history – but the mechanics of search technology pre-date the advent of the Internet.


  • Analysis

    The latest version of Adobe's Acrobat will forward flip it even deeper into the enterprise applications arena.


  • Material ambitions

    Aircraft makers are seeking to find lighter and greener materials for their planes.


  • Knockout punch

    A European project aimed at making the production of aircraft body panels faster and cheaper is about to develop its first prototype.


  • The phoney war

    With fourth generation networks coming soon, mobile operators must chose which standard they adopt.


  • Fashion phones

    Mobile phone manufacturers are increasingly watching fashion trends. We review the chic phones around today.


  • A century of management

    Management as a standalone discipline within business is now 100 years old. Time for a history lesson.


  • Can you make that clear?

    E&T's recent coverage of bad business language proved so popular that we've started a discussion forum on the internet about it.