In my earlier post, I wrote about the Bing-Yahoo search deal and how it was beneficial to both parties, with Microsoft potentially reaping bigger benefits over a longer term. Today another important deal happened. Friendfeed, a popular real time microblogging tool – similar, much more advanced in functionality, but much less popular than Twitter, was taken over by Facebook. According to the official friendfeed blog, FriendFeed accepted Facebook’s friend request! continue

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July 29 was truly a momentous day. First, we saw this huge re-positioning of twitter. Twitter has moved away from the social networking focus on homepage (where facebook is dominant anyways) to a people powered search engine focus- where it is clearly dominant. While that is quite significant, nothing could beat the importance of the announcement coming from Yahoo HQ & Microsoft HQ about the Search deal. continue

Is Microsoft back in internet search with the new web search service BING?

The biggest buzz in the search/web/internet domains from the past couple of days has been Microsoft Bing! It has been deemed by some as better than Google, by others as comparable to google and by a few the engine which will dethrone Google. I will give such big claims a rest and in this post I will emphasize on how BING can create a bang in the search market space and bring Microsoft live again in the market! continue

I don’t know if the title is able to make is clear enough but this article is actually about Google (the search engine), Wolfram Alpha (the computational knowledge engine) and Bing (Microsoft’s decision engine). continue

Wolfram alpha – a computational “Answer” engine was launched on May 15, 2009. Named after the creator, British physicist Stephen Wolfram, the answer engine has created more than a few ripples in the Internet enthusiasts since its launch. This article is perhaps among the first articles, if not the first, on any Indian blog about what might well be the future of search. continue