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BingTweets

We already told you about a bit of Twitter in Bing , but the team took it a step further. They’ve partnered up with with Federated Media and Twitter to create BingTweets . BingTweets fuses Bing search results with real time content from Twitter. How does...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2009 5:34 AM by Sunshine

Filed under: Search, Bing
Dr. Qi Lu to keynote SMX Advanced

In his first public appearance since joining Microsoft, Dr. Qi Lu , President of Microsoft’s Online Services Division, will kick off day 2 of the search marketing expo held annually in Seattle in early June. This year’s SMX Advanced, held on June 1-3...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2009 8:28 PM by Kip Kniskern

Filed under: Search
Live Search to test update to MSNBot crawler

Search engines (like Live Search, or Google) work by “crawling” the web, looking for web pages and reporting back on their content. Live Search has been making improvements on the crawler, and will be testing a new improved crawler in the coming...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2008 2:12 PM by Kip Kniskern

Filed under: Search, Live Search
Search roundup - More Kumo domains, Yahoo deal still makes sense for mobile growth

While talk of the weekend may have been around whether or not a $20bn Microsoft-Yahoo search deal is back on the cards, there were a few other bits and pieces that caught my eye. Firstly was Mary Jo Foley's post about the continued push to rebrand...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2008 9:32 AM by Chris

Filed under: Search, Yahoo, Live Search, MSFT-YHOO
Microsoft takes control of Kumo.com domain – watch out for the Live Search rebrand

A few months ago Mary Jo Foley got a tip about some new brand names that were being considered for Live Search. One of these, Kumo, jumped out at us due to the sheer scale of TLDs that had been acquired during 2008, as well as the corporate owner hiding...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2008 2:04 PM by Chris

Filed under: Search, Live Search
New Mobile Search Release

Phil reports that the mobile search team has been working hard, getting ready for a new release of the browser service: http://m.live.com . This service works on every mobile phone that has a browser. So what’s in this release? - Optimized experience...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2008 6:18 AM by Sunshine

Filed under: Mobile, Search
Messenger email: more hints at a Windows Live Search rebrand (UPDATED)

3 weeks ago we wrote about some interesting tidbits that seemed to hint at a new name for Live Search: Windows Live Search. While the sources appeared to be legitimate, we stopped short of proclaiming a name change, and we’re not ready to call it...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2008 9:24 PM by Kip Kniskern

Filed under: Search, brand, windows live search
Search Within Office 2007 Documents: Filter Pack For Windows Search

Windows Search 4 already is an improvement over the standard Windows Search, but did you know you can search inside Office 2007 documents too? I sure didn’t, Sarah Perez (on 10) does : With the the Microsoft Filter Pack installed, Windows Search...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 11:18 AM by Sunshine

Filed under: Search, Windows, Office
Live Search joins the Olympics

With the 2008 Beijing Olympics due to begin in less than 24 hours, Live Search decides to join the game by providing the following Olympics-related features, all set to go live by Friday 08/08/08: The Live Search homepage , with the recent addition of...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2008 9:20 PM by damaster

Filed under: Search, Live Search
Microsoft releases public beta of Windows Search 4.0

Microsoft has just released a public beta of Windows Search 4.0 , an update to the existing search technologies in Windows XP and Windows Vista. The knowledge base article lists the main updates as: Support for the Encrypting File System (EFS) Reduced...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2008 1:25 AM by Chris

Filed under: Search, Search Center, Windows Search Preview, Vista, Featured, Beta
Microsoft SearchTogether

In my article Tafiti and Windows Live Quick Apps , I told you how you can do a search project with one, or more, of your live Messenger contacts with Tafiti search Visualisation . There's another method to search together coming this Spring, it is...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2008 3:50 PM by Sunshine

Filed under: Search, SearchTogether, IE7
Yahoo! snags exclusive T-Mobile search rights in Europe

Hoo boy another press release (via BetaNews )! This time it's Yahoo! announcing an exclusive deal with T-Mobile in Europe to use Yahoo! oneSearch as its exclusive search provider. While of course this fits into the realm of Windows Live news...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2008 7:14 PM by Kip Kniskern

Filed under: Mobile, Search, MSFT-YHOO
MSN/Live market share declines slightly in January, Yahoo! more than that, according to Compete.com

The latest search market share numbers for January show a slight decline for MSN/Live Search, a nosedive for Yahoo!, and more steady increases for Google, according to an entry in the Compete.com blog . We compared Compete, Nielsen, and Hitwise...

Published Sat, Feb 02 2008 6:09 PM by Kip Kniskern

Filed under: Search, Live Search
Microsoft, Yahoo!, the merger and Google - Search

Lots of talk about the Microsoft proposal to Yahoo. Google has made an offer to Yahoo! now too. Looks like the battle over Yahoo! and it's services has begun. Let us take a look at Search. Search - December 2007 Microsoft Yahoo Google Searches million...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2008 2:05 PM by Sunshine

Filed under: Microsoft, Search, Google, Yahoo, Live Search, MSFT-YHOO
Microsoft bids $1.2bln to acquire FAST Search and Transfer

Microsoft announced today plans to acquire Norwegian enterprise search leader FAST for about $1.2 billion US dollars cash, or a 42% premium on the company's current price on the Norwegian stock market. FAST is a leader in the enterprise search...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2008 6:03 PM by Kip Kniskern

Filed under: Corporate Strategy, Search, Live Search

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