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  • New search tool Google Squared goes live

    Google Squared, a new search tool that Google described last month, is now live. Squared pulls information about members of a category from all over the Web and presents it in a table with rows and columns, instead of the series of page links typically returned by search engines.

  • Microsoft's Bing Ad Claims to End 'Search Overload'

    Microsoft's first commercial for Bing, the company's recently rebranded search engine, is officially out in the wild. The inaugural Bing ad focuses on the notion of "search overload," suggesting Internet users have been "lost in the links" while America's financial system has been collapsing.

  • Microsoft Bing goes live: So what?

    Now that its available, my first experiences with Microsoft Bing lead me to a simple, inescapable conclusion, "So what?" I had imagined that something as widely hyped as Bing would be a life-changing experience. It wasn't. Not even close.

  • In pictures: Inside Google's Sydney office funpark

    Governor-General Quentin Bryce today officially opened Google's new Sydney headquarters opposite Star City Casino. IDG was there to snap photos of the tech giants' new offices which included an elaborate kitchen, gaming facilities and themed relaxation rooms for its 350 staff.

  • Six things to expect from Google Chrome extensions

    Since Google's Chrome Web browser launched last September, it has garnered a small market share (roughly one percent, depending on the study you read). Chrome has embraced a lot of principles that has made the Mozilla Firefox browser so popular: It's fast and open to web developers to improve it.

  • Hands on with Microsoft Bing

    At last, Bing has arrived. I tested a preview release of Microsoft's new search/decision engine, previously called Kumo, to see how well it compares. Here's a breakdown of its new features and how well they perform.

  • Why Google's outage wasn't a complete failure

    I noticed something interesting in the Google outage and its aftermath on Thursday. Google's sites, in case you were hiding in a cave yesterday, were unreachable around the world for a good hour and a half. Gmail, YouTube, Google News, even the google.com home page were inaccessible to scores of people.

  • Google ran out of bandwidth? ... Google?

    For a while there a few days ago it sure seemed to some as though the Google Chrome browser development team had proven again that no matter how much bandwidth is made available, someone, somewhere, for some reason, is going to need or want more.

  • Search engine Wolfram Alpha focuses on great answers

    The natural-language search engine Wolfram Alpha is expected to launch May 18 and more details about the site are emerging. Most notably, Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Alpha's creator and the brain behind the computational software Mathematica, says his site is not the next Google killer, but an add-on for your Web searches.

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