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WSJ Says Big Google Search Changes Coming? Reality Check Time!

Published on 2012/03/15 By admin

The Wall Street Journal is out with a story saying that Google is about to make one of the biggest changes in its history of offering web search, providing more direct answers and gaining “semantic” smarts to understand more about what words mean. I’m scratching my head, since…

Microsoft’s Photosynth App Goes Worldwide After 6 Million US Downloads

Published on 2012/03/12 By admin

Microsoft’s Photosynth iOS app, which has been available to US users for almost a year, is now available worldwide and includes a couple updates. In its blog post today, Microsoft says the app has passed six million downloads since its US-only launch last April. The app is now in version…

Google Maps Vs. Bing Maps: Summer Vacation Planning Showdown

Published on 2011/05/20 By admin

Wouldn’t it be great if there was one mapping service that offers everything you need to plan a trip to somewhere you’ve never been? Sure, map sites are generally pretty similar

Bing’s Read/Write World: An Ambitious Project To Bridge Maps With Movies, Photos, Local Data & More

Published on 2011/04/22 By admin

It’s probably not something that you can wrap your head around pretty quickly.

Bing Releases Huge Set of Upgrades: Maps, Local, Mobile, Travel, Image Search

Published on 2010/12/15 By admin

At the Bing Search event in San Francisco today, Microsoft unveiled a dizzying array of nearly across-the-board updates and improvements for Bing online and mobile apps. Some are minor and some are more significant.