Archive for May 18th, 2009

Wolfram Alpha v Google: Which is better? (Daily Telegraph)

Wolfram Alpha is the new computational search engine that could revolutionise the way we use the web. But is it good enough to replace Google as the most popular online search engine?

Monday, May 18th, 2009

UK tourist attractions coming to Google Street View (Macworld UK)

Google has announced plans to photograph areas of public interest and natural beauty for its controversial StreetView service, launched earlier this year in the UK.

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Google rival search tool launched (Channel 4)

A revolutionary search tool that computes answers rather than pointing to related websites has been hailed as a potential rival to Google on the day of its official launch.

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Google suffers another service outage (Macworld UK)

When people tried to access Google News, they were met with a “503 Server Error” message and a “Please try again in 30 seconds” instruction.

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Google rival Wolfram Alpha works… But only if you ask a very specific question (Daily Mail: World News)

An internet search engine which can answer specific questions without throwing up millions of optional pages has launched today.

Monday, May 18th, 2009