Tuesday, 2008-05-20, Copenhagen
A new competitor to Google on the search engine market? Yes and this may happen everyday. Recently, Powerset has launched a semantic search engine so that users can input natural language to query on stuff. Although not the whole internet content has been indexed by this new engine (only Wikipedia is in the index), using natural language is definitely a good idea to attract users attention.
HP does have a big dream of becoming the next IBM. In a very recently news, we have heard that HP has successfully acquired EDS, a big IT server providers. Services, out-sourcing, and new hardware (as well as software) technology alliance, HP is becoming the great challenger to IBM.
The big idea of cloud computing has been attracting more business people’s mind. The column-based database vendor, Vertica, has joined the cloud with a number of database vendors like EnterpriseDB, MS, Amazon (SimpleDB), and Google (Bigtable).
Friday, 2008-05-23, Copenhagen
Microsoft and Yahoo are in ANOTHER talk after Yahoo’s rejection of MS’s request of deal. Now MS is looking for a chance not totally acquire the searching brand and find out a better way of making things work. Yahoo’s board have received complains after the rejection that they were not considering the deal in a rational way. Let’s just wait and see what Google says about this.
Google is reaching another scenario in the search-engine market. Quite recently the search giant unveiled its health-related website, Google Health. This can be very good news for most people who does not know pretty much on how to find the good medical information on Google. What can make it difficult for Google is that people make just want to find a good medical answer by the search engine instead of going to their doctors. Oh, one more thing, there is a privacy issue if people start to put their health information on their Google Health profiles.
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