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With Apple coming out with its tablet (unconfirmed reports), making Bing the default search for Iphones in the next couple of days and Amazon starting to project Kindle as a platform for developers, Google may have found its big partner in Amazon. There lies a big battle ahead for us.I am slightly bent towards Google on this, but at the end of the day all i want is a free super phone, which makes up for the cost by serving ads

If the first post of the series had Microsoft dominating the traditional areas of computing, today we take a dive in to the Google dominated areas. While Google has continued to innovate in search, email and IM service, even Microsoft has come up with some solid innovations in these areas

Real time search or ‘social search’ as Google calls is getting hotter by the day in the web space. First Microsoft announced the Bing-Twitter-Facebook Integration deal. In a matter of days Google followed to launch ‘social search by tying up with twitter and other social networking sites. Now comes the turn of Yahoo,

Since  Microsoft Corp. took on Google in its own forte, it  has been making efforts to break grounds in conventional search, through  its search engine Bing. First, we saw  Bing Visual Search and now, at the recently concluded  Web 2.0 summit, MS took the fight to a whole new level – striking a double punch through

This happened for me right from the day when Bing declared Visual Search live during its presentation. I tried it a couple of times and then then I finally tweeted to the Bing team about the same. No surprises from Microsoft again. They were damn late in responding back but they did after well over a week telling me about the problem. All that I needed to do was to change country preference in Bing to

Date: May 28th ’09, Time: 8:15 AM, Place: San Diego, California This was the moment when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, took centre stage to launch a product, they believed would challenge the very forte Google operated in. The name was BING  (reportedly it stands for Bing Is Not Google).  A little problem to the big