Microsoft New Website Bing Goes Live!

Microsoft has launched a new search engine website called Bing to counter Google's dominance of the search engine market.To advertise the site Microsoft has a 80 to 100 million $ war chest.The international firm James Walter Thompson(JWT) won the lucrative marketing and advertisement deal . Perhaps what i find pleasant about the new search engine Bing is its graphic layout.It is so pleasant cannot be compared to Google or Yahoo. It is certain that due to this feature many users will sign up and use the Bing search engine as a favourite home page.


New Features:
The BING website was launched over the weekend .The site is expected to come up with algorithms that will ensure that the search results are relevant and more user friendly. But that is an enigmatic task since the internet is a vast pool of information that is readily dynamic and with search engine optimization techniques being refined ,getting 100% relevant results becomes difficult.But the Bing team promises to be up to the task and have set three guiding goals:

1. To Deliver best results
2. Organize the search experience
3. Simplify common tasks and help inform decisions

For an in depth discussion on the new features and what distinguishes Bing from other search engines ,you can read at the Bing Community Blog!Another distinguishing factor is the Bing travel portal complete with a facebook fan page...Google would better wake up especially with it's gmail portal which has not improved an iota bit or changed in the last three years.Credible competition is now here!

Air France Flight AF447 Crash !

24 Hours later after the Air France Flight AF447 left Rio De Janiero for Charles De Gaulle airport in Paris went missing it can now be confirmed that the same has evidently crashed into the Atlantic. The search is now on for the missing wreckage. Unfortunately there seems to be no location signal or beep being emitted by the black box thereby further intricating the search. The Brazillian government has sent two helicopters and three naval ships to an area where the plane is believed to have gone down.The location of the crash has been arrived at after a freight plane pilot who had flown almost on the same flight path reported seeing some orange sports in the water which could have been the burning remains of the plane.

What perhaps is perplexing is the suddenness in the manner of the disappearance of the plane in an abrupt manner which often happens in the case of a bomb explosion. However one can only speculate pending official investigation.

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This kind of incidences always heightens my fear of air travel because the survival rates is often minimal despite the fact that statistically air travel is the safest. Flight AF447 is indeed a sad tale and my condolences go to the affected families especially minding the fact that the crash is an international affair as among the passengers on board as per the passenger list manifesto included members of over 32 nationalities.

Ollie Philips Named IRB player of Year 2009

England captain Ollie Phillips was named International Rugby Board sevens player of the year 2009 ! Well i had held my breath because i was rooting for Kenyan Collins Injera who emerged the seasons top -try scorer. Kenya having been an underdog i hoped that the board would consider honoring the two deserving Kenyans but was not to be so , but the Kenyan rugby team has not lost its hopes, we are still the best and believe in ourselves.

The rugby team is set for greater heights, they cant hold you down!And that was quite an impressive perfomance at the Scotland sevens this weekend!