New Microsoft Live Search homepage. It has hot spots to direct you to vertical searches

Quoted: Find exactly what you are looking for - FAST! With Live Search.

Live Search Blog.

Quoted: We're excited to announce that we've reached an agreement to acquire Powerset , a San Francisco-based search and natural language company. Powerset will join our core Search Relevance team, remaining intact in San Francisco. Powerset brings with it natural

Live Search Objectives

Quoted: Task-centric search Brad claims that search is becoming more task centric. He categorizes searches into four broad categories:
1. Users are looking to be entertained
2. Users are looking to buy something
3. Users are looking to find an article or other piece of information
4. Users are looking to navigate (navigational queries)

Live Search Objectives

Quoted: He said: "We think we can do a lot more to drive contextual search. We see a lot of opportunity to push the envelope there."

Goodbye Windows XP. It's no longer being sold to OEMs as a pre-install as of today.

Quoted: Learn about the Windows XP lifespan, extended support, and other facts about its future.

The GOOG->MSFT Exodus: Working at Google vs. Working at Microsoft

Recently I’ve been bumping into more and more people who’ve either left Google to come to Microsoft or got offers from both companies and picked Microsoft over Google. In this blog post I’ll stick to talking about people who’ve chosen Microsoft over Google.

A story about how GOOG bought Android because they were being outflanked by MSFT's Win-Mobile. Android is not looking like a good bet right now.

Maybe MSFT should stop trying to pry online search share away from GOOG and focus on owning mobile search instead.

Quoted: You might already know that Google bought Android for million in after Danger co-founder Andy Rubin just asked them for

Microsoft's centralized online contact list.

What technology is going to replace captcha?

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