My vote is for Wi-Loon!

"Yes, there are some additional conditions which are not practical (like the driving the path manually before to record a precise map), but it has been done." But is it possible that the whole streetview concept was a leadup to the self driving cars? It would seem unlikely that the whole streetview concept was strictly to produce 'pretty maps'. If Google knew that their program needed a precise map, then why not collect this data along with the image data collected for streetview?

At what - checkers??

Stupid typo - 'no affect'.....

Well see, that's how it survived then. The phone was probably a 3G model so 1G would have not affect on it.

Oh...it would be a 'cluster' all right........ ;-)

I'm assuming he wasn't part of 'Anonymous' then? ;-)

I went the opposite way. I had an old HTC Touch running Win Mobile 6, and I hated every minute of that phone. Issues that irked me? Touch screen doesn't shut off while on a call. One volume for the entire phone. So if I wanted to put my phone on vibrate, or silence mode so not to be awakened by a wrong number, the alarm clock wouldn't work because the alarm was tethered with the phones ringer volume. If I wanted to check my hotmail account, and the server was not responding for any reason, the cancel button on the phone was totally useless. Pressing it just meant, sure, I'll retry, over and over and over again. Had to pull the battery more than once to stop that endless loop. I've read on some reviews for the new Win7 phone that yes, it still only has the one volume control for the entire phone. I was so pissed with my old HTC that I went to an iPhone. I have the older iPhone 3GS and I love it. What I see as an issue for MS is that they're stuck in this corporate mentallity, and unless they start to fully understand the consumer's wants and needs, and not what corporate clients want in their products, then they will always be a follower. MS needs to get out of the mindset of trying to tether all their products together in everything they do. I don't need a phone that can talk to my XBox, (which I don't own), or sync with Outlook, (which I don't use) or MS Office, (Open Office user), Zune, (iPod user) and so on. Build a phone for corporate users who want those features, but build a true consumer friendly phone as well. Until MS actually starts to understand the consumer and their needs, they will always be behind the eight ball.

But is not the whole point of a search engine is to return relevant results? I would suspect that if Bing was using their own algorithm, why would it not return zero results for any of the random terms that Google used in their honeypot experiment? It would seem that Bing is blurring the lines somewhat between an actual search engine, (er, decision engine?) and a good 'click tracker'. If MicroSoft wants to compete against Google, maybe they should focus their efforts on combining relevancy with tracking users clicks, and not just, as this article suggests, offer up results because some user 'clicked on it a few times'.