Microsoft's BING

All of a sudden there are all these new search engines coming out. I wonder what’s going on… You should have heard of Microsoft’s BING by now. Here is a little video clip that highlights its features: [youtube &color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Microsoft Bing Search http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDzNc3RATN8&feature=player_embedded

June 1, 2009 · 1 min · birdchan

Wolfram Alpha

Recently, WolframAlpha has been making some noise saying it can perform better searches than google. From what I understand, WolframAlpha claims to understand the words you type into the search bar, thus returning better search results, whereas google will only search your words literally with its PageRank algorithm. Say for example, if you type in “short CEO”, WolframAlpha will give you the info on the short CEO such as his name, his business, and so forth, while google will give you anything related to your search words. ...

May 15, 2009 · 1 min · birdchan