mike | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 16 2008 | microsoft, search, advertising, yahoo, msn
Something I don't get - why does Microsoft place it's ONLINE services underneath the WINDOWS division? Does this make sense to anyone else?
One of the reasons I left MS was stuff like this - if you're not running Windows or Office, you get very little control over your own destiny; everything has to march to the drum-beat of Windows or Office market needs.
This stifles innovation and does not provide the incentives you need to get people excited about their own influence on products.
This announcement looks like further consolidation of online properties over to windows. These things used to be in a separate MSN organization - which is content/advertising focused. They were also not held accountable enough for building a successful business (leading to MS needed to acquire a successful online business).
Quoted: The company placed new executives in charge of operations facing fierce new competition from Google, Apple and cellphone makers.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 02 2008 | search, microsoft, powerset, techcrunch, ramez naam, friends
Ramez was the MS rep on the call about the PowerSet acquisition.
MS acquired PowerSet to add natural language capability to the Live Search engine. The guess is that this was a $100M deal. Which shows there is still room for innovation in the search realm - it's good to see MS taking a stab at innovating in search.
ShareViewed: 5 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 11 2007 | search, microsoft, google, sitemap
It looks like there is a new SITEMAP: protocol being accepted by all the major search engines, so we no longer have to support uploading sitemaps to each engine.
ShareViewed: 4 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 13 2007 | search, seattle, microsoft, startups
Chris Payne and Blake Irving - both VP's in Microsoft's LIVE group are leaving Microsoft. Chris is apparently going to a Seattle Starup. Blake apparently has also left - not sure what he's going to do.
Anybody know?
Quoted: seattletimes.com: Northwest news and information from the Seattle Times. Daily local news, sports, arts and entertainment, and classified ads.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 27 2006 | google, search, ajax, microsoft, hailstorm
Robert Scoble interviews Mark Lucovsky (who used to be at MS - I worked with him in the "hailstorm" days.
Mark talks about developing Google Search extensions on your own web page, and a little about how he develops code and the process for deploying changes to Google's data center.
ShareViewed: 6 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 16 2006 | google, yahoo, microsoft, search, crawler
One SiteMap to rule them all!
Quoted: The Sitemaps protocol enables webmasters to information earch engine about pages on their site that are available for crawling.
ShareViewed: 11 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 09 2006 | search, trends, google, myspace, microsoft
This is an interesting cross-over chart!
ShareViewed: 12 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 19 2006 | search, microsoft, google
Search academic papers. Competition for Google Scholar.
ShareViewed: 12 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 10 2006 | microsoft, google, search, news
Google buying search relevancy algorithm from 26 yr old Israeli!
Quoted: In general, while search firms continually tweak their offerings to help make their search results more relevant to their customers, they are constantly on the ...
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- chris - Feb 17 2008
You must be Mike's friend before you can comment on this Fave.I have to agree with you here. I always found the need of MS upper managers to push everything into Windows and Office quite stifling. It's like no other business models are allowed to exist at MS...
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