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What Just Happened? Thursday Was Supposed To Be Bing Day.

techcrunch.com

“Everyone knew thursday was the day that Microsoft was going to launch their new search engine. Everyone’s been talking about it for months, and the press and marketing efforts were carefully tailored to maximize the impact. Thursday, May 28, 2009 was supposed to be Microsoft Bing Day.” read

Microsoft’s new search/Decision engine - Bing

Microsoft’s official press release:

May 28, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. unveiled Bing, a new Decision Engine and consumer brand, providing customers with a first step in moving beyond search to help make faster, more informed decisions.” read

cnet’s take on bing

Wired’s article on bing

PS Bing.com is not live yet.

Look out Outlook, Google’s Wave is coming

smh.com.au

“Google co-founder Sergey Brin has put his reputation behind a project launched [yesterday] by a team from Google Australia which seeks to overthrow email as the dominant mode of internet communication and replace it with a new hybrid.” read

Official Google Wave Demo

TechCrunch’s article on Wave

 

Implications of wave as an open protocol are beyond E-mail replacement. Wave opens the door to a totally brand new and fresh mean of communication and collaboration.

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