Bing

As our Bing cherries ripen on our cherry trees that were covered with blooms earlier this Spring, I am looking forward to trying Microsoft's new Bing search engine.

I like the name Bing. The name is reminiscent of the sweet, dark red cherries that we love.

Microsoft announced the new Bing.com search engine on May 28, 2009, at

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/may09/05-28NewSearchPR.mspx.

Bing is being described as a "decision search engine". I look forward to trying Bing.com and compare the results with Google, Yahoo, Carrot, Pandia, and the many other search engines, I use.

Trade Shows

For trade show information, a guide to trade shows, exhibits and conventions, trade shows by state, designing a trade show booth and a calendar of shows, see the Trade Show Handbook at http://www.tradeshowhandbook.com/

Google vs Social Networking

I never considered that Twitter and Facebook, social networking sites, might become competitors to Google. Read the recent post entitled "How Twitter and Facebook Now Compete with Google" at http://blogmaverick.com/2009/05/15/how-twitter-and-facebook-now-compete-with-google/#comments

I chat with my 16 year old nephew using Facebook. Per an unofficial Facebook source, soon we will have video chat - see blog post at http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/05/facebook-video-chat/