Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine launching June 3, brands itself as a a “decision engine“. Realizing that users are not looking for words or links but for solutions and services, Microsoft attempts a more coherent and intelligent approach to search, perhaps inspired by some “semantic web” idea.
More coherent and intelligent than Google? A lofty goal, coming from a company whose rambling CEO required multiple inter-cut edits to boost his semantics when announcing the launch of Bing on a Walt Mossberg interview. While we’re in the vicious gossip dept., Read the rest of this entry »
