So if you haven’t heard, the latest news coming from the technology world is that Microsoft is set to unveil it’s latest attempt at squashing the search engine giants Yahoo and Google. How exactly? By revamping their existing search engine with a totally new method of conducting search queries online. So dubbed “Bing”, it was [...]
Over 20 startups later & so goes Startup Weekend San Francisco
Last night the San Francisco tech community gathered at the Microsoft offices to conclude the 55 hour marathon that has become known as Startup Weekend. It all started on Friday night and when it was all said and done, over 20 groups had created startups and present it to the group. The video above (and [...]
Everyone say hello to “Diggle”
Yes, I penned that myself. I figured that if people can come up with merged names like “Brangelina”, “TomKat”, “MicroHoo”, then why not “Diggle”? But what is “Diggle”? It’s actually a combination of Google and Digg…
As reported on TechCrunch earlier today, there are reports that the search engine giant will purchase Digg, the brainchild of [...]
A major shift in the search engine monopoly appears to be brewing
Apparently as first reported on Robert Scoble’s blog and repeated on Truemors.com (run by Guy Kawasaki), it appears that Microsoft’s new “alternative” strategy in working with Yahoo will wind up greatly decreasing Yahoo’s status as a search engine powerhouse and help elevate Microsoft’s search status to rival that of Google. Surely while software development company [...]
