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November 12, 2009

Bing! Bang! Bust! Alpha!

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Microsoft is teaming Bing! up with Wolfram Alpha, according to the BBC. Wolfram Alpha aims to answer questions directly, rather than display a list of links like a search engine. The “computational knowledge engine” is the brainchild of British-born physicist Stephen Wolfram. It will be used to bolster Bing’s results in areas such as nutrition, […]

August 15, 2009

Bing! Bang! Bust! Loyalty vs. Novelty Dept.

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An interesting juxtaposition of opinions this weekend, showing how two persons can look at the same stats and draw almost-opposite conclusions: At the New York Times (link here), Miguel Helft claims that Bing! really doesn’t have far to go to catch Google, now that Microsoft has inked a deal for Bing! to be the engine […]