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Excerpt: You may have seen that Microsoft has re-branded its live search as Bing.com. My first impressions on the name and the design are pretty good. It has a crisp fresh design and  looks a lot better than the tired MSN, Hotmail design which quite frankly after such a long time was just annoying. Bing is a better name. To me it is an onomatopoeia; the sound of an answer found. Depending on which country you access Bing in you will see a different background  and it seems that we also get a different background every day. While the look and feel is…

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Excerpt: Search Me Search Engine With the speculation that Apple might be a possible buyer for Yahoo, one wonders what a search engine developed by Apple might look like. My guess is that it might look something like the SearchMe visual search engine. It has the same sort of interface as the iphone and ipod touch where each of the search results are displayed visually and can be flipped through. As you can test in this widget. This is a nice feature. The bottom portion of the screen displays the result in a standard way so you can read…