Bing Materializes Quietly Against Wave Backdrop

Last Thursday, the technology world saw a demonstration of both approaches on the same day. Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) took the innovative road by announcing Google Wave — an approach to online communication that does not fit neatly into any current classification. Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT)’s announcement of Bing, in contrast, is a “new” approach to Web search.

Google had a live demo for thousands of developers; Microsoft had a flashy canned demo for hundreds of executives. No surprise which company won the social media battle — developers and the Web world fawned over Google Wave. Meanwhile, the most quoted comment about Bing was that it stands for “But It’s Not Google.”

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