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Microsoft Bing Launches (But-It’s-Not-Google_

May 29, 2009

Microsoft today launched it’s latest search engine, BING. An all inclusive search engine that encompasses all of your daily activities into one (search, shopping, travel, reviews, etc.) The press was quite confused this morning as the site didn’t go live with the official launch announcement. The site is a nice attempt at search, but will [...]

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Twitter Needs A Search Model To Succeed, Not Facebok

March 4, 2009

Twitter and it’s army of investors are getting a little too big for their britches. The micro-blogging phenomenon that has taken on a life of it’s own, says that that they will eventually be able to compete with Google in a different kind of search model. It’s because of this potential it sees in search [...]

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Microsoft’s New 4 Letter Word….Kumo

March 2, 2009

Kumo.com, a domain name picked up by Microsoft this year, is rumored to be Microsoft’s new home of search. (Sounds like the Japanese restaurant down the street from my old place)
Yesterday, the domain was moved from the registrar to Microsoft, and is now pointing to an internal Microsoft test site (employees only)
Highly doubtful that they [...]

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QA Search Takes Center Stage For 09

January 26, 2009

There’s no doubt about it, ‘Question and Answer’ based search is finally going to find a home in the US for 09′. The concept was originally made a phenomenon by South Korea’s No.1 search engine, Naver. This year, we have seen quick success with Mahalo launching their take on the service, Mahalo Answers, and now [...]

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MahaloAnswers Takes On ChaCha

January 16, 2009

Since the launch of Jason Calacanis’ Yahoo Answers competitor, Mahalo Answers, I have been overly impressed with the strength the community has upheld as well as the quality of answers coming back from users. The service has been both helpful and sometimes addictive. Helpful for getting responses to answers I don’t have the time to [...]

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