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Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an agreement that will improve the Web search experience for users and advertisers, and deliver sustained innovation to the industry. In simple terms, Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers.

For Web users and advertisers, this deal will accelerate the pace and breadth of innovation by combining both companies’ complementary strengths and search platforms into a market competitor with the scale to fuel sustained development in search and search advertising. Users will find what they care about faster and with more personal relevance. Microsoft’s competitive search platforms will lead to more value for advertisers, better results for web publishers, and increased innovation and efficiency across the Internet.

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CUPERTINO, California—June 12, 2009—Apple® today announced that more than 11 million copies of Safari® 4 have been downloaded in the first three days of its release, including more than six million downloads of Safari for Windows. Safari 4 is the world’s fastest, most innovative browser and is built on the world’s most advanced browser technologies including the new Nitro JavaScript engine that executes JavaScript nearly eight times faster than IE 8 and more than four times faster than Firefox 3. Safari quickly loads HTML web pages more than three times faster than IE 8 and three times faster than Firefox 3.*

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USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham interviews Google engineer Matt Cutts on how to get your site to the top of Google with 5 basic, common sense SEO tips. Matt Cutts guests on the USA TODAY Talking Tech web video show.

I was checking out Microsoft's new search engine BING, that quite obviously has to be just like Google, check out the homepage:

naturally, this is the best way to set up a search engine, Google is just a grand example of this kind of simplicity.

the same can be said for the search result page.

I guess they didn't really try to make it look different from Google.

Check out these heatmap and research results in the article on UserCentric.com: http://www.usercentric.com/about/news_item.php?m_id=4&s_id=4&id=227

The fact that Microsoft even started this search engine in stead of the search they already had on MSN.com tells me that it is the focus that counts here.

Past Thursday, for whatever reason, BING was the second search engine world wide. This means that in it's short existence it beat Yahoo!, that is impressive even though its only for one day.

Personally, I like that Google is getting some competition because it usually leads to good innovations and it can drive the market even further. Monopoly is pretty much always a bad thing.

Link: http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/20090608_sheltercompetition.html

Today, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Google are kicking-off the Design It: Shelter Competition, a global competition that will challenge users to design a simple shelter in 3D with Google SketchUp, give it a geographic location using Google Earth, and share it by uploading to the Google 3D Warehouse. The summer-long competition, which begins on Frank Lloyd Wright's birthday and will conclude on the Guggenheim Museum's 50th anniversary, is inspired by the work of architecture students at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture and a recent exhibition of that work at the Guggenheim called 'Learning by Doing'. A signature project in the school's curriculum for over seventy years, students are tasked with choosing a location near one of the school's Taliesin campuses in Arizona and Wisconsin and designing a small, 100 square foot shelter. Students are encouraged to consider human needs for safety and comfort, and more broadly, to recognize the connections between a structure and its geographic location. The Design It: Shelter Competition offers a twist on this assignment, empowering anyone – not just students – to use Google tools to think about design and ultimately share their ideas with the world.

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