A Better Bing For Your Buck?

We saw the debut of two search engines - competition for Google - this past week. Wolfram Alpha is a 'computational knowledge engine,' 

"the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone."  Quoted from the WolframAlpha website

I had some fun with Wolfram Alpha this past weekend after reading about the Easter Eggs hidden on the site. (Ask "Where have all the flowers gone" or "Where are my car keys" or "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck?")There are real uses, however, and the suggestions are great. (Home town, etc.) The information is better than a whole page of Wikipedia and beats the ads at Google when all is want is quick information.
The other is the beta version of Microsoft's search engine, Bing. People seem to be playing with it; the drop-down window works like Google and suggests a query. So I asked 'Why Bing?' And the answer?

"You probably didn't wake up today expecting an entirely new search experience. But — Bing! — here it is. So, why a new search engine? Why the new name? Why now? .... It's time search caught up. So we had an idea. Start over. And we did.
We took a new approach to go beyond search to build what we call a decision engine. With a powerful set of intuitive tools on top of a world class search service, Bing will help you make smarter, faster decisions."  Quote from the Bing Team at Microsoft.