We all know about the world wars and the way they influenced the future of mankind. But nothing can be compared to the one which is happening right now,even as I write this blog.
Traditionally wars were between nations for control of colonies and their natural resources. Today, in the information age, wars are fought between companies, software giants and minnows alike. Though the motive has remained the same, but the resource is knowledge.
Google-search, which was started merely 12 years ago, has now the most used search engine on the web. In response, microsoft launched its own version of search engine "Bing". Wolfram-Alpha, though not fully developed, brings a cool new dimension to "searching".It basically associates keywords with numbers and vice-versa to present the result in the form of graphs, charts, facts and more! Various other search sites such as ask,yahoo,lycos are also used, but rarely!
In July, this year, Microsoft and Yahoo entered in a deal according to which Microsoft would power Yahoo! search while Yahoo! would become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers. Definitely, the move was made to increase their share in global search engine usage against that of Google.
Information on-the-go is available on smartphones, and the biggest contenders in this arena are Nokia, Motorola and Apple. Recently, the Finnish mobile giant Nokia sued Apple over copyright infringement. There are more battles to come on the global tech arena like Motorola Droid(with Google Android OS) vs Apple Iphone, Windows7 vs Karmik Koala(the 9.10 release of Ubuntu, described as the official alternative to Windows), Google Wave and many more, a harbinger of good things to come. And I am keeping my eyes open :)
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