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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Guns, Lots of Guns: A Video of Microsoft’s Bing Visual Search, Aiming Right at Google

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With all the Microsoft employees tweeting about Bing 2.0 last week, especially its new Visual Search offering, launched yesterday, BoomTown thought it might be better just to show it in action.

Think of that scene in “The Matrix” when Neo asks for “guns, lots of guns,” and you have a good idea of what it looks like.

Microsoft is going to need a lot more of this kind of innovative firepower if it hopes to have a chance of competing in search against Google.

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Monday, February 9, 2009

Will Tough-Talking Bartz Reorg Yahoo Soon and Finally Blue-Pill the “Matrix”?

My favorite anecdote collected so far about new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is the one in which she called together two separate groups of execs who were direct reports of former Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and President Sue Decker.

Bartz, several sources recounted, went around the table and asked them one by one what they actually did, making various outspoken comments along the way about management.

Stories like this about Bartz’s take-charge style have been ricocheting through Yahoo as she navigates the troubled company to come up with a plan to revive it.

But of all the various things many employees I have talked to hope she does first is dump the “matrix” organizational structure that many at Yahoo have grown to despise.

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Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

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