News - With a Bing and a Wave, the Microsoft Google battle continues

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Microsoft claims Bing moves beyond search engines, while Google unveils Gmail on steroids.

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Does that mean that Miucrosoft has a machine that goes Bing :)

Yawn - just more marketing speak from microsoft. Wish they would just concentrate on getting the stuff actually working better and/or cheaper. Guess thats never gonna happen until 'press release' balmer leaves.

All looks pretty good.

Whoever owns bling.com is going to make a mint from people thinking its the new search engine :)

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Originally Posted by cheesemp

Yawn - just more marketing speak from microsoft. Wish they would just concentrate on getting the stuff actually working better and/or cheaper. Guess thats never gonna happen until 'press release' balmer leaves.

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Spot on comment there. We need the global public to wake up to press releases and marketing jargon. While this b/s is successful, it will continue to plague our lives like an ever growing swarm of furious locusts. :help:

Hmm. I'm dubious about this Wave stuff from google. Most people want email to be just email, and the interface to be nice, clean, and optimised for reading writing email.

Convergence is a nice idea and all, but it seems to go against what google does best in my opinion - simple, clean uncluttered interfaces that do exactly what you expect of them.

Oh, and when exactly did we get to Web 3.0? Sounds a lot like Web 2.0 to me.

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Originally Posted by Fraz

Oh, and when exactly did we get to Web 3.0? Sounds a lot like Web 2.0 to me.

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I think 3.0 signifies user collaboration over the net, or something like that.