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Microsoft Bing: Not a Google Killer, But Quite Useful

Microsoft’s new Bing search engine was announced on Thursday and should be online and available to the public by the time this article is published. There’s been a lot of speculation about just what Bing is, and also about the implications of Microsoft developing a new type of search [...]

The Google Tax?

Anyone who has even remotely been paying attention will realize that Google has made a fortune online. The reasons for Google’s unprecedented success are many, but there has also been a certain amount of luck involved. Google got into the search engine business back in the Wild West days of [...]

What is WolframAlpha? And Should Google be Worried about It?

Every now and then some industrious soul will invent a new type of search engine. But inevitably, any new search engine is compared to Google. Specifically, “Will this one be the Google killer?” WolframAlpha is a new type of search tool that is causing quite a buzz, but the search [...]

Is Google Making the Internet Boring and Predictable?

The charge has been made so many times that it’s beginning to sound like a broken record: Google is too big for its own good. The latest example of Google’s total online dominance is the lesson learned by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia. Wale’s “dared” to challenge [...]

Ask.com Still Trying to Reinvent the Search Engine

Even though it appears that Google won the search engine wars years ago, alternatives to The Big G’s dominance online continue to exist. Yahoo search, for example, continues to attract a respectable (if not overwhelming) percentage of the market. But in the contest to design a more perfect [...]