Luke Hubbard

To compete with Google News, Bing has a news aggregation page at http://www.bing.com/news. I’m not sold on the layout yet, as the first main listings in the center don’t resonate with me. I’d much rather see several main topics and news stories rather than 2 that Bing thinks are most relevant. However, on the left are major categories like “World,” “US,” and “Local.” On the far right are news listing based on the user’s set location.

The videos of the day are too far down the page. By moving them up, Bing could really make this page more user friendly.

Honestly, I don’t think I’ll be revisiting Bing News again to get my daily dose of “What’s going on in the world.” I’ll stick to Google, Yahoo, and CNN.

Google acquires AdMob to catch up with Microsoft and Yahoo. Admob is a mobile display ad provider and Google handed over $750 million for the company. The following image is from Google’s official posting about the acquisition and it provides a clear example of where Google was in the mobile space and where they will be going with the AdMob technology.

Two Google Wave product managers named Stephanie and Greg made the following video. They are brilliant! The video is only 8 minutes long and it sums up a lot of the cool features for Google Wave…

Here’s the entire 80 minute video that was originally released by Google in case you want to check it out…

Google Monopoly: Is it an online board game or a topic on antitrust laws? In a stroke of SEO genius, Google partners with Hasbro to release the online board game called Monopoly City Streets. Forum discussions, news results, and blog posts about the board game rise in search engine rankings, pushing other publications about “The big scary Google monopoly” aside.

Hey, would you rather read about a fun new online game or read a dry article full of antitrust talks and citations of Microsoft’s former legal issues? I actually tried brushing up on the Google antitrust issues before a meeting I had at the Google offices in NYC and I instead ended up making offers for property on Monopoly City Streets. Congratulations Google, your strategy worked… who cares about antitrust anymore… we all wanna buy more fake property!