New York Post: Bing Has Google in a Panic!

NY Post sets up a face-off

It's not often that the sensation-masters at the New York Post dive into the nerdy world of tech battles, but yesterday they weighed in on the Google/Bing battle (which has yet to be proved a battle, except in Microsoft commercials). Under the headline "FEAR GRIPS GOOGLE", the Post reports that Google co-founder Sergey Brin "is so rattled by the launch of Microsoft's rival search engine that he has assembled a team of top engineers to work on urgent upgrades to his Web service."

Google says they're always working on the algorithms, and they probably are. Color this observer skeptical that a search engine designed by chronic bumblers and sharing a name with a famous crooner has the boys and girls in Mountain View scrambling for their market share. Meanwhile, in other Microsoft News:

• With bundling frowned upon, the company's looking to push its IE 8 browser by donating money to charity.
• Windows Vista looks like it'll be a lot pricier than Windows XP, much to the chagrine of Netbook makers.
• Microsoft employees will no longer have their smart phone bills picked up by the company--unless those smart phones are Windows Mobile smart phones!
• Finally, the company settled an antitrust suit with the state of Mississippi for over $100 million.