Bing versus Google
Microsoft has been aggresively promoting its search engine, Bing to compete with Google. Recent efforts include merging pay per click advertising with Yahoo and integrating some features with Facebook. Bing has a long way to go to catch up to Google however. Recent statistics have Google comfortably in the lead with about 64% of the search engine market to Bing’s 11%. Yahoo comes in at 20%. I wouldn’t count out Microsoft though. I still remember when Netscape dominated the browser market back in the mid 1990s, when Internet Explorer first came along.
News From the Front in the War Against Hackers
In the ongoing battle against internet security breaches, we are one step behind the hackers, according to a recent article in Information Week. As hard as IT security professionals work to keep information safe, hackers are working even harder and developing new strategies. According to the author Greg Shipley, “We face more and larger breaches, increased costs, more advanced adversaries, and a growing number of public control failures.” You can read the full article here: Outgunned: How Security Tech is Failing Us
Categories: Computers, Security Tags: internet, internet security
