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 weeks. According to Jeremiah Andrick over at...
Microsoft announced today that Qi Lu, who left Yahoo this summer after 10 years as head of the search business there, will be joining Microsoft on January 5. In a memo to Microsoft employees today announcing the hire, CEO Steve Ballmer revealed that "Qi will oversee all efforts in search, our online...
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 Live Search as Kumo . Mary-Jo has jumped on some...
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 anonymously behind the registrar. Incidentally...
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 for the iPhone - Product Search (US only), compare...