Google Voice is Skype hunting

Starting on August 2nd, Google Voice is now international with worldwide support for the voice over IP calling service. This move also marks full support for 38 different languages, and 4 different currencies (Euros, British Pounds, US Dollars, and Canadian Dollars) in which to stock up on calling credits. Google also claims that they have […]

Early Christmas For Bing

Well it appears that it’s Christmas in June Bing. For the second consecutive week it has “stolen” marketshare from the other two major engines. comScore reports that Bing is now at 12.1% market share which is up from the 11.3% they were at last week which was up again from the 9.1% Microsoft had prior […]

Google Replies

Well the fine folks over at Google have come up with a response to Friday’s bid by Microsoft for Yahoo! Now, believe me – I understand that business is business and that Google has to respond with a negative spin against their competitors but the blog post and press release they put out made me […]

MSN Takes A Blow

As if the folks over in Microsoft’s search division didn’t have enough woes in their lives lately (and by “lately” I mean for all the years after people started using search engines) the data released by ComScore yesterday paints a bleak picture. Until yesterday they were at least able to call themselves one of the […]

The “Virtual Earth” Belongs To Microsoft

Never one to let his competitors keep any type of advantage, MSN has announced the the “beta” launch of “Virtual Earth” – their answer to the additiona of satellite images to Google Maps. What makes it different is that the images MSN will provide are taken not from satellite but from sleughs of planes and […]