Wenex Technologies

There’s a good chance that by now you’ve heard of bing, Microsoft’s new search engine. The optimistic will say that it’s a distillation of many existing search engines, honing what works, culling what doesn’t, adding what was missing, and subtracting what was extraneous. The cynical will admonish the Redmond juggernaut for yet again forcing its way into a market of which is just can’t bear not having a significant share. While the negative have precedent to cite (such as Exhibit A and Exhibit B), the positive arguably have some evidence in their favour. bing does have a number of features that could make it a useful little engine, after all. (more…)