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The World is buzzing today about the launch of Bing.com, Microsoft's newest try to compete with Google. Bing is a search engine that will try to offer more than just the regular list of results. It's going try to provide relevant options that tie directly into other sites.

For example, if you search for a travel related phrase, not only will Bing display links of websites (which is where Google ends), it will also try to pull rates and dates from various travel websites so that you can investigate right inside of Bing, thus cutting down on clicks and (so they say) confusion.

A quick note to all of our views: Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 has been released. From here on out, I'll call it "IE8."

If you're a novice, here's a quick explanation of what a web browser is. A web browser is the program you use to view websites. You're using one right now. There are different "brands" of web browsers just as there are different brands of cars. If you're not sure which "brand" of web browser you're using, then you're probably using Internet Explorer. They have the majority of the market share.