Microsofts latest attempt at search market: BING

May 30th, 2009

Microsoft announced its search engine named Bing. Microsoft believes that the search engine would help its users in decision making. According to Microsoft, existing search engines like Yahoo and Google only provide information about what they search. Bing, on the other hand, would guide users on how to use that information.

Going live on 3rd June, Bing would initially help its users in making decision about making a purchase, planning trip, health research and local business search.

“Bing is an important first step forward in our long term effort to deliver innovations in search that enable people to find information quickly and use the information… (to) make smart decisions”, said Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO. About the interesting name, he said “The name is short, it’s easy to say, it works globally”.

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Cuil a failure? or just a beginning

December 30th, 2008

Earlier this year Cuil (pronounced ‘Cool’) was believed to be a Google killer. A new search engine started by some industry veterans and well funded. I was personally amazed to see the amount of PR and buzz it managed to create early on. Though the day it launched we were disappointed (it didn’t index us), the quality was not upto the mark. And eventually, few months down the line it seems to have hit a dead end with no real traffic.

So what really caused this crash? Is Cuil really that bad? Maybe not

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