New Bing Search Engine

Last week the new Microsoft search engine Bing launched and got a lot of positive press. Bing has a lot of cool features and has a chance to be a major player in the search game. Below is the Microsoft video describing the features of Bing.com.

Yahoo results getting a change?

It looks like Yahoo is taking a page out of Powersets playbook. It looks like when you do a search it now offers you enhanced Wikipedia results. Below is a screenshot of one example that I’m seeing.

Hulu CEO Interview

Yahoo Tech Ticker has an interview with Jason Kilar the CEO of Hulu up on their site and it has a lot of good info on whats going on with them. Hulu is the major competitor to Youtube and has partnered with the big media companies to allow them to show their content and has become a huge success. You can see the video interview and more here and if you have time you should definitely check it out. Hulu is one of my favorite sites that I check out at least once a week, to get caught up on 24, and it’s always interesting to hear what a CEO has to say about the state of their company. Below is another video interview of Jason done by Kara Swisher a couple of weeks ago.

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Google Search Tools in the Wild

This morning I’ve in my Google searches I’ve been seeing a Search Tools link above my search results that lets me narrow my searches and filter out the information. Below you can see a screenshot of the tool and I think it’s pretty cool how you can filter out the results with different options.

Yahoo Testing New Homepage

It looks like Yahoo is testing out a whole new homepage design. Looks like they are really trying to push their apps and Ebay in this new redesign which can be seen below.

New Google Favicon?

Not sure how new it is but it is the first time I’ve seen it. It’s still a lower case G but it has the Google colors in the background. Check it out for yourself when you get a chance.

Origins of Popular Web 2.0 terms

ReadWriteWeb has a great post here that comes up out with the origins of popular Web 2.0 terms. My favorite one has to be the one for FTW:

FTW is most commonly understood as standing for “For the Win!” The Urban Dictionary says it entered popular culture via the TV show Hollywood Squares. The show featured two contestants playing a trivia based tic-tac-toe game where the squares had celebrities siting in them who “helped” answer the questions.

The final question to complete the tic-tac-toe was asked “for the win…” The show ran from 1966 through 1981 but there were several attempts to revive it.

Yahoo Joins Opensocial

Techcrunch is reporting that Yahoo will join Google’s Opensocial. Should be interesting since Yahoo is really trying to open up their search results

Web 2.0 Expo

I didn’t get a chance to go to the Web 2.0 Expo this past week but Richard at ReadWriteWeb has a good breakdown of what happened.

Web 2.0 Expo Summary

Is it the Product or the Person that makes a Company

Loren over at SEJ has a great post about the difference of Popularity of Digg and Del.icio.us. I have to admit that Kevin Rose has become an Internet Rockstar and his popularity has helped make Digg even more popular. It’s amazing what both Josh and Kevin did and I give them both credit for creating something that the people would love and find useful which is the purpose of building web apps.