Ina Fried at CNET not only has news and an email from Live Search Senior Vice President Satya Nadella on the much rumored but now soon to be internally released Kumo.com beta, but she has a screenshot as well:…

Live Search, keeping to a Spring and Fall update schedule, is set to unveil its new name sometime this spring, and now thanks to Twitter it is more than just rumor.  We’ve been hearing about a possible rebrand for quite …

MSN Music stopped selling music downloads in the US in November 2006, but they have remained available through MSN UK, with the service run by Nokia.  Now, however, that service is set to close in March, according to the …

Windows Live Photo Gallery has been featured in a number of commercials recently, and tonight in a variation on a theme, Photo Gallery made an appearance on the Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters.  LiveSide reader Orion commented on it, and …

While Live Search hasn’t made much headway in the past year and hasn’t made a deal with Yahoo! to acquire their business, Microsoft seems to be more committed than ever to continue the uphill battle to make Live Search relevant.  …

Last year at Advance08 Microsoft announced both a new name for their advertising strategy – “Microsoft Advertising”, and the concept of “engagement mapping”.  The thought is that a consumer may look at numerous ads, websites, and brand impressions well before …

Today’s little flurry over the Live.com snow leopard isn’t a big controversy, but it does underscore the fact that people are catching on to Live.com images as something cool.  Here in the US, we’ve had them since the Olympics, and …

Live Search cashback apparently continues to be beset with problems, at least for a subset of customers who used the service over the holidays to purchase items on eBay.  We first reported problems some customers were having on February 4th, …

To be honest, when I saw the latest Live Search home page image this morning, my only thought was “what a beautiful animal”.

Well apparently Snow Leopard means a little something to more than just the Girl Scouts of Kyrgyzstan…

Continuing our look at non US-Centric numbers, a new report from French internet audience measurement company AT Internet caught our eye:

These numbers,  a cross section of 96,965 reporting websites, all “French speaking”, show for one thing just how dominant …