If you haven't noticed, Bing and Google are engaged in a tit-for-tat over which search engine has the best features. On Wednesday, Bing unveiled new and improved tools like Wolfram Alpha integration, Facebook Previews and full-page weather reports. Then Google hit back on Thursday with enhanced movie listings and even safer SafeSearch. Before that Bing unveiled an overhauled maps interface, the next day Google announced Street View was now available in all fifty states. Last month during the Web 2.0 Summit, the two search engines sent out competing press releases bragging about Twitter integration, and on and on it goes.
Google may be the dominant search engine, but Bing is doing its best to push its way up the popularity charts.
With so much attention focused on adding new stuff, you've got to wonder what the future has in store for search and whether this feature war is getting out of hand....more
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