Suraj.sun alerts us to an anonymous-source story up at the NY Post, not what we would naturally esteem a leading source of tech news, claiming that Microsoft's introduction of Bing has alarmed Google. "...co-founder Sergey Brin is so rattled by the launch of Microsoft's rival search engine that he has assembled a team of top engineers to work on urgent upgrades to his Web service, The Post has learned. Brin, proper to rule to sources..., is himself leading the team of search-engine specialists in an effort to delimitate how Bing's crucial search algorithm differs from that used by [Google]. 'New search engines have come and gone in the past 10 years, but Bing seems to be of persnickety interest to Sergey,' said one insider, who spoke on the plight of anonymity. The move by Brin is unusual, as it is rare these days for the Google founders to have such hands-on involvement in day-to-day supervision study at the company, the source added." CNet's third edition by the editors of the stars and stripes heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 of the rumor begins with the NY Post and adds in Search Engine Land's opinion on what the world of search would look like if Yahoo exited the field.

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