The 'Search Wars' are Back!

Well the 'Search Wars' are back! This month we witnessed the introduction of WolframAlpha, which is kind of a search engine. But it just spits facts and answers to math questions out at you. It's great for things like entering your birthdate and finding out how many days you've been alive, what famous events happened that day, or what famous persons were born the same day as you. 

But, it's not a search engine that helps you find answers to things like what's the best digital camera or where's the closest zoo to your home. But can any of today's mainline search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Live.com, Ask.com) answer these questions effectively? Yes, they all attempt to, but they just don't quite make it.

Enter Bing! Bing is Microsoft's yet to be launched attempt to answer life's little questions. Check out the Bing promotional video. 

Microsoft claims that they decided to "start over" when creating this new search engine. I don't know yet if that claim is true, but from just watching the promo video I see a lot of borrowed features from search engines, Web directories, shopping aggregaters, etc. all combined into a nice new package.

I personally can't wait to try it out and determine for myself if Microsoft's hype is just the regular hype or if there is something to Bing that could actually the take search share away from Google.

I'll be watching for Bing to launch.