Gary Eckstein Internet 0 bing, common tag, google, microformats, Microsoft, pipes, rdfa, search market, search strategy, wolfram, wolfram alpha, yahoo, yahoo pipes
The Search Engine landscape has been through a tumultuous time over the past few weeks. First we had Wolfram Alpha emerging from nowhere and then Microsoft Live becoming Microsoft Bing. I was initially a bit hesitant whether Bing was any better than Live however after using Bing a bit I am convinced that Bing is [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 0 bing, google, google squared, Microsoft, Microsoft bing, search engine, search engine results, search engines, serp, wolfram, wolfram alpha, yahoo
I was trying out the very cool Google Squared earlier and was interested that the following error is returned in the Search Engine Results Page (SERP) when searching for ‘google squared’: Google Squared couldn’t automatically build a Square about google squared Google Squared may not be perfect but it again raises the stakes in the [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 3 bing, google, kumo, Microsoft, search, search engines, wolfram, wolfram alpha
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 [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 0 clusty, google, hcard, Internet, microformats, review, rich snippets, screen shots, search, search algorithm, search engine, search engine results, search string, snippets, vcard, wolfram, wolfram alpha, yahoo
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’ [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 1 compare, google, google results, live, Microsoft, microsoft explorer, microsoft explorer 6, review, richsnippets, search comparison, search engine, search engines, wolfram, wolfram alpha, yahoo
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 [...]
