Bing Turbo-Charges Maps, Equips It With Flickr, Space Telescope to Challenge Google

Here's evidence that Microsoft isn't just up for challenging Google in the usual Web-search business, but in other Google areas too: Like Maps. Bing's just demonstrated some upcoming tweaks, and they'll make Google nervous.

Microsoft showed off its turbo-boosted Maps app at the TED conference, but as befits the intellectual theme of TED, it also posted a long and complex blog post about the matter. You can read it here, but it's absolutely gargantuan and delves into some of the...