Tag: cnn
Google denies planning face recognition app
It was CNN which first sparked the speculations that Google is working on its very own face recognition app – as in, take a picture of someone on your phone, and have their Google profile pulled up. Whoa stalker-ish!…
Bing gets more visitors than Twitter
Figures released show that Microsoft’s ‘knowledge engine’, Bing, got more unique visitors than Twitter, Digg and CNN in June. It also scored more visitors than Embroidery Online, Taxidermy.net and Non-League Daily but I suppose that’s not as significant.
The site was visited by nearly 50 million users – 49,571,922 to be precise. Twitter got 22,997,148 visitors in the same period, CNN got 28,645,202 and Digg got 38,961,981.
Microsoft reportedly spent £61million on the launch of Bing. So it’s money well spent then? Well, maybe, but Bing isn’t really designed to rival Twitter, Digg or CNN is it? It’s meant to rival Google. Google got 145,948,025 unique users in June, so it’s still got a way to go then.
It’s even still trailing Microsoft’s other search engine, Live, which got 79,405,701 visitors. This was a 21% drop from May though, indicating that users are ditching Live in favour of Bing.
Are you guys using Bing? If so, what do you think? I’ve only really had a quick look – I quite liked the video searching with playback available via the thumbnails. Although I’m told you could do this with Live anyway.
I’m just not getting the whole Bing name either. The Bing will always be Silv’s club in The Sopranos to me. Fuget about it.
(via Revolut!on & Compete)
Rwandan 'One Laptop Per Child' childrens' first word 'Google'
It’s all well and good harping on constantly about the One Laptop Per Child scheme, but is it actually benefitting the children of Africa?
According to a chap on CNN the other day, out in Rwanda demonstrating the effects made on the kiddywinks, the….
CNN taking presidential debates to YouTube
The new CNN Debates channel is up on YouTube right now, letting you (if you’re American, presumably) put questions to the current US presidential candidates in video format.
