By Erik Small -

Microsoft announced the Beta release of Bing, a new search service launching in Europe. We often see new products and services trying to slice off some of Google’s search market share. Coming from Microsoft, Bing is at least worth following as it rolls out. The Bing Press Release indicates full rollout won’t happen until June 3.

The mission of Bing is straight-forward:
“Microsoft has designed Bing to help people quickly find the information they need on daily routine searches and in order to accomplish tasks, including making a purchase decision, planning a trip, researching a health condition or finding a local business.”

Sounds interesting, eh? We shall see.

By Erik Small -

I have to admit it was just a few days ago that I heard about a new search product that some speculate it could rival Google.

Well, here it is folks — it just launched today.

Wolfram Alpha is the name of the service and the internet search world is talking about it.

Check it out for yourself:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/

I’m already reading about how Wolfram Alpha is hitting only a ’niche’. In their own words, this is the goal of the service:

“Wolfram|Alpha’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.”

“As of now, Wolfram|Alpha contains 10+ trillion of pieces of data, 50,000+ types of algorithms and models, and linguistic capabilities for 1000+ domains.”