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
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”
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?):
…What is Jellyfish.com?
Jellyfish is a new
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.
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 …
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