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How to improve your search engine’s popularity

a) Make results more relevant
b) Make it faster
c) Get a pornstar to advertise it in a flash movie
d) All of the above

Windows Live Search went for d with Ms Dewey. Another successful day at the office for …

MSN Soapbox: Messenger and Mobile integration coming soon

NewTeeVee, a new site for GigaOM run by Om Malik, posts a review of MSN Soapbox that offers some insights into where the beta service is heading.

First, according to the piece, Soapbox is slated to come out of …

Windows Live Books launches, Academic Search update

Today sees the launch of Windows Live Book Search, a service we first posted about back in May along with the launch of its sister site Windows Live Publishing Portal. Designed to provide access to books indexed by …

The All-New www.backofmyhand.com

Introducing an exciting new site called enabling you to become a local … anywhere. You can use this new site as a place for all the collections you’ve created on Windows Live Search Maps – collected together in a single …

MSN Hello Christmas Competition

MSN has ramped up its online ad activity for Windows Live Messenger, ahead of Live.com’s launch in the New Year, with a Christmas campaign site that’s aimed at promoting its video-call service.

MSN’s Hello Christmas site, which has now …

Where are they now? Windows Live Sidebar and Live.com TV Gadget

At the beginning of year one of the most interesting gadgets talked about was that of the “What’s on TV” gadget for Live.com. Providing local TV listings and links to show and episode information, this gadget allows Media Center PC …

Live.com Product Tour

Thanks to Brandon for pointing out the Live.com Product Tour, a marketing effort that includes some simple how to’s on setting up Live.com and some truly awful videos.

Live.com Product Search

Not big news, to be sure.  Expect something with a little …

Office Live Screencasts up on Channel 9

Don Campbell, an Office 2007 Evangelist, points to three new screencasts up on Channel 9, showing how Office Live and Sharepoint Designer 2007 can work together to create custom Office Live web sites.

 

The screencasts:

Office Live with Sharepoint Designer

Windows Live WiFi Center Beta 4 released

Mike Miles of the WiFi Team announces on the Un-Wired blog that the latest beta release of WiFi Center, the WiFi connection and security manager, is up on Connect.

Improvements to the beta include (from the blog entry):

  • Support for

Browser based Windows Live Messenger Mobile makes its debut

This sure is a busy night for mobile news, thank god we have Windows Live employees that blog to keep us on our toes.  Mike Smuga, Program Manager for Windows Live Mobile announced, on his blog, the availability of Windows …