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Bing goes live in multiple markets

Getting reports from all over that www.bing.com is live:

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The US is getting the Hubble telescope image that is on live.com, but for at least some other countries (we didn’t check them all), they’re getting our old friend the snow …

The Cat Is Out Of The Bag, It’s…Bing!

BingLogo Steve Ballmer just announced Microsoft’s newest search offering on the D7 stage. He introduced it by showing a video, a Star Trek parody called “A bold search for a new name.” The video runs over Microsoft’s chronic re-naming of its …

Setting the (search) stage this week: New name, new version, new partnership?

This is a big week or so for Microsoft, and for Live Search.  According to reports from the Wall St. Journal, the widely anticipated new version of Live Search, code named Kumo, is set to be unveiled at D: …

Microsoft Shuts Off Windows Live Messenger IM For Users In Countries Embargoed By The US (Error 810003c1) [Updated]

WLMessenger Users in Cuba, Syria, Iran, Sudan and North Korea can no longer IM with Windows Live Messenger.

When trying to log in they will be left with error message:
810003c1: We were unable to sign you in to

MSN QnA Beta Is Closing On May 21st

All things come to an end, same goes for the QnA beta. The team just announced the end of the beta and the closing of the QnA site:

We are ending the QnA beta test and are closing the

More Tough Love: LiveSide interviews Danny Sullivan about Live Search

smxadvancedlogo Danny Sullivan, Editor in Chief of Search Engine Land, conference organizer for Search Marketing Expos and Search Marketing Now, and all around search guru, took some time with us today to talk about Live Search, in conjunction with the …

Live Search cashback “exponentially growing”: 5M pageviews and 10k purchases every day

cashbacklogo Live Search cashback hasn’t publically shared many numbers that we’ve seen, so these numbers kind of jumped off the screen when we noticed them in a Tweet.  Clicking through to the article, the numbers weren’t attributed, but it wasn’t …

Microsoft pubCenter beta goes public

Microsoft pubCenter, an ad publishing tool (think Google Adsense) from Microsoft Advertising, after existing as a private beta for a number of months, goes into public beta today, April 22.

Kevin McCabe, Senior Product Manager for pubCenter beta, will be …

Web IM In Hotmail

Web IM is coming to Hotmail. It became available to users in France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the UK last month and starting today it will roll out to Brazil, Canada, China

Windows Live Video Messages joins the Wave 3 family too, update coming soon! (Updated)

Vmessages The Windows Live Video Messages team just announced on their blog that their website will get an update in two weeks. Included in this update will be a change in the header to match the rest of the Windows …