search engines

Microsoft Bing Search Goes Live

Microsoft Bing, the replacement of the Microsoft Live Search (which was the replacement for MSN Search) goes live on 3rd June 2009 (at www.bing.com.au in Australia). Microsoft Bing was codenamed Kumo in development and, according to Microsoft offers a better search experience (when will Microsoft finally settle on a single name for their search?). According [...]

Blog Spam Increasing

Almost everyone is affected with email spam. Spam detectors / email filters have improved substantially over the past few years but unfortunately the skills of the spammers have also improved. It is not just businesses involved in the fight against spammers but also governments; The Australian government, for example, is taking spamming and the negative [...]

Can your Business afford NOT to be on the Internet

If you doubt just how enormous the Internet is, just consider this: 20 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. WordPress.com gets 18,000 pageviews a minute on the Blogs it hosts Flickr hosts over 3 billion photos More than 100 million users log on to Facebook at least once each day

Wolfram Alpha Fails

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. Is Wolfram Alpha Better than Google? I [...]