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Well…maybe that’s where Microsoft came up with the name for their new search engine.  Badda Bing is right indeed.  Because, with this search engine, it seems nothing is off limits. Even though Bing wasn’t supposed to be out for another couple of days, they apparently decided to launch a bit… Continue Reading »

I admit it.  I am not a lover of the business practices of all things Google, and yet when I need to look something up online, where do I go?  You guessed it.  The Big G.  Google managed to quite successfully win over much of the public through the years… Continue Reading »

Well, the official launch of the much talked about Wolfram|Alpha is now May 18th, although a soft launch did indeed begin last night.  Access is said to slowly become available to everyone throughout the weekend.  A few press folks were able to get their hands on it to give it… Continue Reading »

When, oh when, are they gonna learn it is pretty much senseless to even attempt to hunt down the pirates?  Right or wrong, P2P file sharing happens.  And suing the creators of the popular Pirate Bay isn’t gonna stop it.  And now, in a rather obvious attempt to support that… Continue Reading »

Google made some changes its search results.  You can search for something like “restaurant” in a standard Google search and you will get local results.  You don’t have to include a location because Google figures it out via your IP address.  If Google gets it wrong, you can just hit… Continue Reading »

They say every cloud has a silver lining.  Or is it every corporate bad news has a spin master to make better?  Whatever it is, Yahoo announced losses for the fourth quarter of 2008, but they also announced better earnings than estimated.  The total loss for the fourth quarter was… Continue Reading »

2008 has not been kind to Yahoo.  It began with a buyout offer from Microsoft that they promptly screwed up, and was followed by the disintegration of their ad deal with Google and two rounds of layoffs.  Now it appears CEO Jerry Yang has finally had enough. Yang announced his… Continue Reading »

Google has announced a new technology that allows its popular search engine to index scanned documents.  It uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to convert a document saved as a PDF from an image to words.  Previously the images of text were quite difficult to find via a search because the… Continue Reading »

Sources have revealed to the Wall Street Journal that Yahoo! will announce layoffs when they reveal their quarterly earnings tomorrow.  The exact number of jobs affected isn’t know but is estimated to be at least 1,000.  The move isn’t much of a surprise, however.  Last month they hired a consulting… Continue Reading »

Yahoo is making good on its promises to overhaul their site into a better, more accessible version of what it is now.  It’s looking to make the main page into something of a cross-breed between the MyYahoo page and the current main page.  It will essentially try to act as… Continue Reading »