It’s called Bing. Have a look at what it can do here.
It seems it’s the year of the search engine enhancement. Like Wolfram Alpha it’s moved away from the search and see who has the most hits but moved towards helping you make your decisions by displaying pertinent data and letting you decide. It is a midway point between Wolfram Alpha and Google which means they will all have their niche in the marketplace and Google will most likely have to share dominance. Can’t be a bad thing today.
No mention of when it will be available though which is interesting as the demo shows it clearly in action so you would assume it’s almost ready. Hope that it isn’t set up just for the demo and it’s nothing like that.
All these enhancements should mean that the web gets a lot easier to use as we can find, theoretically, what we are looking for easier.
MS’s belated answer to Google
It’s called Bing. Have a look at what it can do here.
It seems it’s the year of the search engine enhancement. Like Wolfram Alpha it’s moved away from the search and see who has the most hits but moved towards helping you make your decisions by displaying pertinent data and letting you decide. It is a midway point between Wolfram Alpha and Google which means they will all have their niche in the marketplace and Google will most likely have to share dominance. Can’t be a bad thing today.
No mention of when it will be available though which is interesting as the demo shows it clearly in action so you would assume it’s almost ready. Hope that it isn’t set up just for the demo and it’s nothing like that.
All these enhancements should mean that the web gets a lot easier to use as we can find, theoretically, what we are looking for easier.