Bing Bumped Yahoo

Microsoft Corp only needs to take time less than a week to bump Yahoo Inc. Now its site Bing has become the second largest search engine in the world.

According to the report from StatCounter, Google still dominate the search market in the US by 71.47%, Bing 16.28% and Yahoo 10.22%.

"Steve Ballmer (CEO Microsoft) wants Microsoft to be the second largest search engine in the world in five years, and provide funds as much as US$ 40 billion to acquire Yahoo, but Bing seems to be faster and cheaper than predicted," said Aodhan Cullen, CEO StatCounter.

Bing is the upgrade of Microsoft Live Search. The upgrade, which previously used code name Kumo, provides advanced search by entering Bing Travel, Cashback, and Maps dor Enterprise.

Backed up by its marketing power, Microsoft is confident to replace Google as a market leader.

Can Wolfram Alpha Kill Google?

Google's dominance in the segment of the search engine is not shaken yet even though the competitors continue to roll out. Now a scientist from the UK is trying his luck to bring a new search engine which is hope to conquera Google. 

Professor Stephen Wolfram, founder of software company, Wolfram Research Wolfram, creates a site named Wolfram Alpha which will be coming soon. Wolfram Alpha presents a new paradigm in online search. 

As Quoted from Vnunet, Tuesday (03/10/2009), search engines such as Google or Yahoo go through billions of web pages to find answers that approximately match the users' request. 

That is in contrast to Wolfram Alpha  that is able to exactly answer questions submitted by users. 

For example if the user asks the question 'Why is the sky blue? " or 'How many bones in the human body', Alpha Wolfram claims to ansewer  accurately. 

If there is no obstacle, Wolfram Alpha will be launched in May 2009. Can this search engine conquer Google, or otherwise collapse? Time will tell.

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