Microsoft will soon be launching its next attempt in trying to capture a greater share of the search market. There has been a lot of news lately in relation to the various search engines; last week saw the launch of Wolfram Alpha, the week before was the news of Google starting to index ‘Rich Snippets’ (Microformats and RDFa data).
Microsoft has been testing Kumo Read the rest of this entry »
Wolfram Alpha, the ‘Answer Engine’ is up and running. The media fanfare has 
been quite spectacular however it is interesting to note that while some commentators hail Wolfram Alpha as the greatest thing since, well Google, others aren’t as in-awe of the new Search Engine on the block.
I have to admit to being in the camp of the not so impressed. Upon first visiting Wolfram Alpha I was disappointed to discover that the site doesn’t display correctly in Microsoft Explorer 6 (O.K., IE6 isn’t standards compliant so Wolfram Alpha are forgiven). Read the rest of this entry »
