With Microsoft reportedly poised to introduce its new search engine, code-named "Kumo" next week, a question arises: "Why does Microsoft do what everyone else does?"
Since screenshots of Kumo leaked out in March, both Google and Yahoo have shown similar new functionality coming to their search engines. Meanwhile, Wolfram Alpha, described as a "computational knowledge engine," highlights how improving search may require something beyond a search engine.
With by some estimates a 73 percent share of search traffic, Google is driving the industry. Yahoo is still a player, but Microsoft as always been an also-ran and not a very successful one at that.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/165308/
Since screenshots of Kumo leaked out in March, both Google and Yahoo have shown similar new functionality coming to their search engines. Meanwhile, Wolfram Alpha, described as a "computational knowledge engine," highlights how improving search may require something beyond a search engine.
With by some estimates a 73 percent share of search traffic, Google is driving the industry. Yahoo is still a player, but Microsoft as always been an also-ran and not a very successful one at that.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/165308/
