Demoed at web 2.0 conference. I wonder how this can be incorporated with flight monitoring technology.

Quoted: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. has upgraded its online mapping service to include three-dimensional tours of 15 U.S. cities, marking another step in its dogged pursuit of Internet search leader Google Inc.

Quoted: With the improvements unveiled Monday, Microsoft is hoping to upstage Google's popular ''Earth'' software, which enables about one-third of the world's population to obtain an aerial view of their homes and neighborhoods.

Hmmm great premise but Like.com looks lame, hopefully it's just the launch-day glitch.

Quoted: Here's the scenario: You pass a person on the sidewalk wearing a pair of stylish shoes. The leather is light brown, with a rounded toe and a buckle. You'd like to find a similar pair for yourself online. But searching for "shoes, light brown, rounded toe, buckle" probably won't get you very far.

Quoted: Launched today, Like.com offers a new method of searching--using pictures instead of text--that may provide a better way to shop. The visual search engine uses a picture as a starting point, and it crawls the webpages of more than 200 online stores, including Amazon.com and L.L. Bean, searching for pictures of items similar to the one you're interested in. Currently, Like.com looks at more than two million different items in four categories: shoes, handbags, watches, and jewelry. In the next few months, the company hopes to add shirts, pants, and dresses.

Microsoft Corp. is courting researchers and other academics with a specialized Web search service, its latest effort to catch up to market leader Google.

Windows Live Academic Search was launched in preliminary form Tuesday night. It lets researchers search the contents of academic journals to find abstracts and, if they subscribe to the journals, get the documents from the publishers' sites.

Quoted: Wikipedia researcher Ian Sefferman writes up simple instructions on how to search Wikipedia when it’s unavailable

This is what John Battelle eluded to in his book "The Search". All and everything will center around Search.

Does this mean that Yahoo! has more balls than Google?

Quoted: Yahoo! furthermore insists that it cannot be expected to take on the might of Beijing alone. Its statement adds: "Private industry alone cannot effectively influence ...

Google text msg search is a life saver. So useful I could kiss it.

Quoted: Google already offers a limited Web service, Google Mobile, which lets mobile users access a modified search engine or find information by sending a text ...

Couldn't they have found a better word than "Web 2.0"? It sounds so... 1999.

For me to read later.

Thanks for this dot Mike :)