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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 …

Talking with Satya Nadella at Searchification

I had an opportunity to sit down with Satya Nadella, Corporate Vice President, Search & Advertising Platform Group, right after he presented at Searchification. We talked about the “super-positive” internal buzz within Microsoft about the new search, some strategies …

The new Live Search in detail – Entertainment and Shopping vertical search engines

With the new Live Search update adding so much, we thought we’d break it down into some smaller posts. First up we are taking a look at two of the four the new vertical search engines that were announced yesterday: …

Live Search relevance: “We’re as good as Google” says Satya Nadella

At Searchification today, Microsoft publically showed for the first time some aspects of Live Search 2.0, including a “quantum leap” in search relevance, with Nadella saying their research shows them equal to Google and ahead of Yahoo in relevance, big …

Searchification: On the way

Just spent the day at SVC, the Silicon Valley Campus of Microsoft in Mountain View, California.  Since there is an embargo until 9pm pdt tonite, I can’t give you any details just yet, and will actually be on an airplane, …

Photosynth and Photo Gallery panoramic stitching explained

Learning something new is great, which is why I thought Steve Clayton’s post today deserved a mention. In it Steve quotes a member of the Microsoft Research team, who explains how the panoramic stitching feature in Windows Live Photo Gallery …

MSN UK launches redesigned homepage

After the January Effect we spoke about some months back, all has been quiet on the MSN hompeage front for a while now. Today MSN launched a new homepage design for the UK portal. Featuring a new header with a …

Live Search at a crossroads: Searchification and beyond

On Wednesday, I’ll be at “Searchification” where Microsoft will be presenting their improvements to Live Search, some of which we’ve already seen.  While even the likes of Mini Msft seemed to be pretty impressed by what they saw …