I’m the easily contented sort. I was quite happy with snail mail until email came along. Then I was happy with Hotmail for a while. When the spams came in too quickly, I moved to Yahoo! Mail and was quite happy with that.

Then someone in a forum offered invitations to try out GMail and I took him up on the offer. When I discovered the convenience of threaded conversations, I went to heaven and have been there ever since. So now, Google is introducing the next new way for us to communicate and collaborate. I don’t know, it looks complicated. Is there another level to the heaven I’m on? A sky lounge? I can’t say until I try Google Wave for myself.

As for search engines, I was quite happy with Google.com. It’s served me with search results simply and speedily enough. But after a sneak preview of Microsoft’s new Bing, I’m itching to get off my butt and make a permanent move to www.bing.com.

Here’s what I understand about Microsoft Bing. Say I am searching for the customer service contact information for TMNET Streamyx. Other than turning in the link to Streamyx’s main homepage and thousands of other sites hurling abuse at TMNet, it will also provide a list of categorical links for pages within the main page. Meaning I can straightaway click on the link to the About page, the Corporate Information page, the Customer Service Information page… BING!!! Don’t have to wade through the entire site to look for the specific information that I want.

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