Microsoft’s Bing Search engine has launched. Reviews overall have been generally positive, and it’s great for search competition to have a serious player release a product to rival Google. Monopolies are bad for innovation, bad for progress, and Google with it’s nearly 70% market share has close to a monopoly on the search market. I’ve [...]

Remarkable new search demo website called Powerset released today. It’s still in beta, and only indexes one website, Wikipedia, today. As they get more funding they will add more servers and computing power to index more websites. Instead of doing simple keyword matches like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo do today, the engine tries understands what [...]