By Stu on June 17th, 2009
Comscore has released the search market shares for this week and Bing.com is up to 12.1%. It is good to see some competition for Google in search, next needs to be advertising. Competition is good for the market and just like Microsoft needs Apple and Google to compete in the OS maket, Google needs some competition in search and advertising.
Microsoft Sites Search Performance
Work Week: 5/25/09 – 6/12/09
Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations
Source: comScore qSearch
Work Week
5/25/09-5/29/09
6/1/09-6/5/09
6/8/09-6/12/09
Searcher Penetration (Avg. Daily)
13.7%
15.8%
16.7%
I was reading TechCrunch this morning and was surprised to see the review for Microsoft’s new search engine Bing. Bing is the replacement for Live Search. I haven’t had a chance to try it out much, but so far it is much needed improvement over Live search. Not sure if it has hit the Google level yet, but I’ll use Bing for my main search engine just like I used Live.
Well give Bing a try and see what you think. I’ll make my assessment after a few days of use.
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By Stu on January 13th, 2009
As a Catholic I have noticed a “gap” in the available technology resources. There are several great Catholic sites, but compared to Islam or protestant resources, we Catholics seem a little behind the times.
Just the other day I came across “Cathoogle.com”. It is a filtered search engine, based off Google, that prioritizes Catholic information and is also content filtered to remove porn and other offensive content.
So even though I have issues with Google, I am happy to see Google’s superior search being used for some good.
Good luck CatholicGoogle.com….
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By Stu on January 11th, 2009
Arstechnica.com did nice review of Windows Live Wave 3. It is good to see Microsoft getting some good press for the Live services. Last summer I left Google due to privacy concerns and moved over to Windows Live. I also like the Live.com email address; as I rarely have to spell it for anybody.
Check out the review by Arstechnica.com and check out what Microsoft is offering. They have some nice free applications….
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By Stu on December 9th, 2008
With Microsoft SilverLight taking on Adobe Flash/Flex for the Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and Java having some issues of recent, it would make perfect sense for Google to get into the game and it will be interesting to see their approach. I have argued with friends that the PC is going nowhere soon and all these RIAs are just more proof the web/cloud is not ready for prime time.
Google is working on "Native Client" a RIA and the key issue is can they get developers to work against it. Microsoft is great at creating applications and technologies for developers. Google has to move to intercept Microsoft on the RIA front. SilverLight is moving forward nicely and is not tied strictly to Windows.
