October, 2007

SEM Services Being Added to Office Live

image SearchEngineWatch is reporting today that Office Live is to get a SEM offering to the services in its Office Live Small Business market. So what is SEM? It’s Search Engine Marketing and basically it means getting your website higher up …

Live Search Maps: the best is yet to come

We haven’t talked much about the changes coming to Live Search Maps, for a couple of reasons.  The first and foremost, of course, is that its not live yet, and it’s kind of hard to talk about the changes without …

Microsoft announces HealthVault: Search, Store, Connect health information

HVLogo Some changes to https://health.live.com caught our eye last night, and today Microsoft announces HealthVault.  The new set of services, which you can access from health.live.com, provides a secure place to search, and also to collect and store health information …

Health Instant Answers: update and clarification

While posting on the new Health vertical for Live Search, I wasn’t able to show how to get to these answers from just the main Live Search page, and that’s because the Instant Answers functionality is just now starting …

POP3 on Hotmail Explained: we talk to Omar Shahine

POP3, a protocol for getting email from a server to a client, has been around a long time, but it hasn’t been generally available for Hotmail users. With the advent of so many different devices (think iPhone), however, a POP3 …

Office Live Workspaces: Our interview with Kirk Gregerson

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Office Live Workspaces, announced on Monday and set to go into beta in December, will provide workspace manipulation and storage from within Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and integration with Outlook), and a web browser interface with a viewer for …

Why “is MSN losing $1billion a year”?

Today I saw a somewhat interestingly timed post about MSN’s profitiability, or lack of. The analysis is based on the Online Services Business (OSB), which is split out as one of the reportable segments in Microsoft’s annual and quarterly company …

Microsoft acquires Jellyfish.com: “comparative shopping engine”

jellyfish The Live Search team posted today to welcome in their new colleagues from Madison, Wisconsin, Jellyfish.com.  According to the Jellyfish website, Jellyfish is a “new kind of search engine” (aren’t they all?):

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Office Live Renamed: New offering announced: Office Live Workspaces

Some big news just dropped in my inbox, as Office Live has been renamed, to Office Live Small Business, and a new offering, Office Live Workspaces has just been announced.

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First of all, nothing about what was up until now …

Live Search Health: a Med Story

One of the four “verticals” of the new Live Search 2.0 is Health,  available at https://health.live.com.  Actually the first of the new features of the service is just that, an encrypted entry into search about health information, using the …