Monday, June 15, 2009

Bing Adds Porn Domain

Bing Adds Porn Domain

Microsoft hopes the move will make it easier to block adult images and videos.

By Paul McDougall
June 15, 2009

Microsoft has created a separate domain within its Bing search engine site that will be reserved exclusively for serving up pornographic images and videos. The domain, explicit.bing.net, will carry searchable content from adult magazine and video providers.



Microsoft's Bing strikes fear into Google founders


By C Shanti
Monday, June 15

Google is so rattled by the introduction of Microsoft's revamped search engine Bing that it's pulling all the stops out to offer new features in its own engine.



News Bits: Is Google Scared of Bing?

By Erin Barker
Monday, June 15. 2009

Despite Eric Schmidt's confident comments last week, a report has emerged that Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) is scared of Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT)'s new Bing search engine. The New York Post reports that Google co-founder Sergey Brin "is so rattled" by Bing that he's assembling and leading a team of top engineers to work on urgent updates to Google Search. If the claim is true, it's a rare move for one of the Google founders to have hands-on involvement in the company's daily operations.



Bing vs. Google, Search Engine Wars

Google has been the big dog of search engines and successfully cornered the market on popularity among internet users.








Google has been the big dog of search engines and successfully cornered the market on popularity among internet users. Bing is a relatively new Microsoft search engine that has caught the attention of Google. Behind Google's vigilance to protect its vested interests in its search engine market, is likely the powerful connection Bing has to Microsoft.




Is Bing Creating A Crisis Of Faith In Google Co-Founder?

June 15, 2009

Microsoft's Bing may be just a pup in the world of search engines, but big dog Google's co-founder, Sergey Brin, is taking no chances that it will come close to nipping at its heels. Brin is reportedly leading a group of Google engineers assembled to dissect Bing's algorithms, according to a report in The New York Post.



Microsoft Bing: Five Areas in Search of Improvement

June 15, 2009

Microsoft has taken its first steps in redefining search with its "decision engine," releasing Bing to a generally positive reception and with a new TV ad that portrays Google (with out mentioning it by name) as a disorganized returner of random links.



Google Researching Bing's Agorithm

June 15, 2009 by Jane McEntegart

It looks like Google may be a little more worried about Microsoft’s new decision making engine than its Chief Executive Officer is willing to let on.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Shuttle Endeavour grounded by hydrogen leak

Shuttle Endeavour grounded by hydrogen leak

by William Harwood
June 13, 2009

Launch of the shuttle Endeavour, grounded by a gaseous hydrogen leak during fueling Saturday, is off until Wednesday at the earliest, NASA officials say. But because of the already planned launch of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite Wednesday, the shuttle team could be delayed to June 20, the last day this month Endeavour can be launched.



Leak Halts Shuttle Launching

By KENNETH CHANG
June 13, 2009

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There would be no countdown to launch after NASA delayed the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour due to a hydrogen gas leak.



Hydrogen Gas Leak Delays Shuttle Launch

By: Roy Mark
2009-06-13

NASA postpones trip to International Space Station by at least four days as space agency seeks answers to leak in launch pad venting system. It's second such leak in three months to delay NASA shuttle launches.



Hydrogen leak delays Endeavour launch

June 13, 2009

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., June 13 (UPI) -- A leaking hydrogen gas line has scrubbed Saturday's launch of the shuttle Endeavour, NASA officials said.



Space Shuttle Launch Scrubbed

June 13, 2009

The Space Shuttle Endeavour remains on the launch pad tonight. NASA was forced to scrub this morning's liftoff after a hydrogen leak was discovered on the external fuel tank. Now the space agency isn't sure when it will make another attempt.



Will space station be full to bursting?

June 12, 2009

The shuttle Endeavour is due to blast off to the International Space Station tomorrow - but is it a mission that will see astronauts queuing for the bathroom? Endeavour's crew of seven is due to arrive on Monday at the orbiting outpost which already a six spacemen aboard. It means that there will be a record 13 astronauts on the space station which has only one lavatory, repaired on a recent shuttle mission.



Video: Hydrogen Leak Forces NASA to Scrub Launch