Microsoft and Google – trading places?

Microsoft has just launched the Bing search engine, and Google Chrome is launching an operating system – a case of visa versa launches. I recently chatted to Peter Flynn, White Wall Web Managing Director, about whether there is much encroachment in these areas.
Flynn says that this is definitely the case. Microsoft has been trying to get [...]

Google and Microsoft in competition again

There seems to be a lot of competition between Microsoft and Google lately – not least of which has been the news of Google’s operating system, Google Chrome OS, expected to launch commercially next year.
So it was with interest that I read about the latest agreement between Yahoo and Microsoft on the Mail and Guardian [...]

Oh, the online search blunders we make!

Inspired by the fact that South Africa is a new swine flu hot spot, I decided to look up the ‘hot topic’ out of personal interest, and stumbled across an interesting post on the Pop Hangover site.
Titled ‘Swan Flu? Susan Boil? Farrah Faucet?’, it is a shortened version of a Yahoo! Buzz list of the [...]

Say hello to Bing

Microsoft is officially launching a new search engine (also dubbed a ‘decision engine‘) to the public that some believe has the potential to topple Google as a prime search engine.
Bing, the re-branded and rebuilt search engine formerly known as Kumo, was designed to replace Live Search, which previously replaced MSN Search.
As usually identified with search [...]

Budding writers step on online platform

All those interested in creative writing; posting it on the internet; and doing it for free can sign up on the Ficly website. Ficly is a collaborative writing community where members can contribute to shared works of fiction. With only 1 024 characters, Ficly users issue story challenges; start new story stubs; and add sequels and [...]