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Music
Google Onebox Turns Search Pages Into Personal Radios
10:10AM Wilson Rothman | As rumoured, Onebox is a music search feature that appears inside Google search that will give you not a little 30-second clip, but a full song play. More »
Software
WolframAlpha IPhone App Is A $50 Super Calculator
9:10AM Jack Loftus | Even diehard WolframAlpha fan may balk slightly at the $US50 asking price. Then they, like me, might balk some more as they try to figure out why a mobile version of what’s in essence a free search engine costs $US50. More »
Music
Surprise! Zune HD Will Have Integrated Bing Search
5:00PM Danny Allen | After gushing over the Zune HD last week, CNet has now posted some pics of its self-rotating, pinch-able Web browser in action, including a shot that reveals a “Search with Bing” branded query box. More »
Software
Wolfram Alpha Now Makes Your IPhone Smarter Too
9:00PM John Herrman | Mathematica’s Wolfram Alpha, the occasionally cheesy, unintentionally racist autistic savant of search engines, has finally gotten a mobile version. It’s optimised for iPhones, and therefore Android phones, the Pre, and others (It works fine in Opera Mobile, for example). Search pages are presented in a clean, simple menu format, although results seem mostly unchanged. [Wolfram Alpha via Electric Pig] More »
Software
Microsoft Rolls Out Bing Mobile Site, First TV Ad
11:10PM John Herrman | Bing’s launch has officially reached stage two: Microsoft has rolled out a mobile version of the site, and debuted the search engine’s first TV ad. How are they? More »
Software
Microsoft Opens Bing Two Days Early (As In, Now)
6:14PM John Herrman | Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, has opened up to the public in a wide, if not total, rollout. It looks pretty good. We tested it with a familiar term, though, and something interesting happened: More »
Software
Microsoft’s New Search Engine Might Be Called ‘Bing’
9:09PM John Herrman | Microsoft is planning to publicly unveil their new GOOGLE KILLER, codenamed “Kumo”, to the public at All Things D as early as today. We don’t know a whole lot about it, but word is they’re calling it “Bing”, as in the cherry, the Crosby or the sound of Microsoft’s planned $US100m planned advertising budget bouncing off of Google’s market share. More »
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Wolfram Alpha and Google Tested Head-To-Head: Whoever Wins, We Win
8:35PM John Herrman | Technology Review did something obvious with their access to Wolfram Alpha: they plotted the computational search engine against Google. The results? As we knew, Wolfram Alpha is no Big G. It’s completely different, and awesome. More »
Software
Wolfram Alpha Search Engine On Video
9:00AM Jesus Diaz | Wolfram—the magical search engine that will channel all kinds of data to give you coherent answers—is almost here. You can’t access it yet, but you can see it working in this video. [NYT and Lifehacker] More »
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