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Too Heavy for Wii Fit? Nintendo Has the Answers

Wii Fit battles against Grand Theft Auto IV in many countries for the No. 1 best seller spot: I say that just to let you know how big Wii Fit is (no pun intended). Now, even though most of us are very happy with the game, the balance board and the illusion that it will turn them into thin, healthy, shiny happy people...

30 May 2008
15:06 GMT

Where In Europe Is Carmen Sandiego? Hints (PC)

Undoubtedly the most successful edutainment franchises, the Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego? is Broderbund's flagship series that has spawned numerous sequels, TV shows, and even board games. Premiered in 1985 with Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, subsequent releases have sold millions of copies collec...

14 April 2008
10:10 GMT

Google Answers Reloaded

This looks like a battle lost from the start by Google, with Yahoo Answers owning about 98 percent of the market or slightly less, but then again, when Google came to be, Altavista dominated more than 90 percent of its market as well, so nothing's really what it looks to be.The Mountain View based company should...

14 December 2007
04:53 GMT

Yahoo Answers Raises Questions

Let's not beat around the bush and set things straight. Yahoo Answers is not the address you want to type in, when you need to find something out. Eventually, you could use it whenever you want to see some interesting opinions on whatever it is that interests you, or if you want to see just how far spirits can i...

11 December 2007
05:43 GMT

WikiAnswers' Redundancy Exceeds Bearable Limits

First, there was Answers.com, the site chosen by the Mountain View based company for dictionary look-ups on search result pages. And then, papa bear Google thought about WikiAnswers, an attempt to base a "helping ground" where anyone willing to lend a helping hand would be able to do it and be read.What it turned out...

26 November 2007
06:44 GMT

Yahoo Gets Tough Competition from WikiAnswers

The competition between the Q&A technologies is getting fiercer, Yahoo being one of the leaders which attract the majority of users with its Yahoo Answers service. But the competition comes from where nobody would have expected: Answers.com's WikiAnswers reached the one million questions milestone and it seems t...

2 November 2007
01:31 GMT

Yahoo Search Now with Users' Support

Nobody confirmed it but this surely looks like Yahoo's universal search. Moreover, it seems to be Yahoo's reply to Google's universal search technology released earlier this year and which was supposed to allow the consumers to get all the information through a single SERP without using several search ...

9 October 2007
05:33 GMT

Google Revamps Another Dead Service

After Russia, China is the second country which receives a revamped version of Google Answer, a service that was shut down some time ago. Tianya Club, one of the top online communities in China, signed a deal with the Mountain View company to create Tianya Wenda, the service that seems to replace the old and already ...

20 August 2007
06:15 GMT

The Largest Web Based Dictionary Finds New Father

The largest web-based dictionary Dictionary.com was finally acquired by the famous Answers Corporation, the owner of rival Answers.com, for $100 million in cash, the two companies announced today. Actually, Answers bough the entire company Lexico Publishing Group, LLC that owns several famous names such as Dictionary...

17 July 2007
08:16 GMT


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