Think you know how to use Google? Think again.

One of the search engine’s biggest strengths is its simplicity — type anything into the search box and you’re off. But people could get a lot more out of Google, the company says, if they learned a few expert techniques, like searching by color, time or image. So Google is offering a free online course to teach search skills.

What has information overload done to us? asks the latest  Microsoft Bing’s ad taking on search engine giant Google.

Leaving aside Bing’s desperate bid to attract users, the tongue-in-cheek ad highlights an important internet distress – data superabundance. Actually, make that digital data superabundance. And that’s as far as Microsoft goes – it has identified a problem. Surely Bing isn’t the answer to information overload. Is it?