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The Definition Of Evil: Microsoft’s Search Wars Hurt Us All
5:32AM Brian Lam | Microsoft may pay Murdoch to de-list from Google. If it happens, it sets a bad precedent. Imagine if all the world’s content is exclusive to some engines and we have to search them all to find what we want? Hell! More »
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Microsoft Might Pay Murdoch To De-List From Google
12:21AM Danny Allen | Last week I joked that Microsoft paying big sites to de-list from Google would never fly – but it just might happen. We know Rupert Murdoch is thinking about de-listing News Corp content, and now Microsoft may provide an incentive. More »
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Wolfram Alpha Ends Up Where It Belongs: In Another Search Engine
6:58AM John Herrman | Results from Wolfram Alpha — the mathematically inclined search engine that everybody hyperventilated about a few months ago then promptly and completely ignored — will soon be rolled into Bing searches. This is fantastic news if you use Bing! (Which you actually might!) More »
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Rupert Murdoch Hates Google
5:35AM Rosa Golijan | Rupert Murdoch says he’ll bar Google from indexing any of his sites. More »
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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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