Internet search engines

Yesterday, we talked about Google’s emerging foreign policy, as it deals with take-down requests from governments around the world. Today, we speak to the executive who is in effect the company’s ‘Secretary of State.’

Google has moved its service out of China is redirecting users to its Hong Kong-based service where the laws are different. BBC correspondent Michael Bristow joins us from China, where he tries to search Google for sensitive terms.

Look out Google, Microsoft is teaming up with Yahoo to create a search engine that could rival Google’s substantial search market share. For more on the story, The Takeaway talks to Nick Wingfield from the Wall Street Journal.

Yet another search engine, Cuil (Gaelic for ‘knowledge’), is taking aim at Google. In true Freudian fashion, the upstart is the brainchild of former Google engineers who claim that Cuil will offer broader, faster searches, without recording information about what you search and when.

Today’s answer is Tanzania. That’s one of the countries where hi-tech bikes have been shipped by internet giant, Yahoo. When ridden, the bikes automatically take photos and upload them to Flickr every 60 seconds. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with the head of the team that’s making it happen. He’s Brian Mullin, senior marketing director at […]