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• Monday Fun (Friday Fun Revisited)

  On Friday, I wrote a quick post about a new look for Microsoft's search engine, Live.com.  The background was no longer the blah, humdrum background that every other search engine uses.  Instead, it was a picture of a man in a boat out on... Posted Aug 04 2008, 10:20 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Search, Microsoft, Live, Live.com

• Friday Fun!

  You may (or may not) have noticed something new on the Internet yesterday.  In an effort to stand out and be a bit more appealing than our search competitor, Live.com got a facelift.  Well, it actually got a background picture.  I have... Posted Aug 01 2008, 02:55 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Search, Microsoft, Windows Live, Live, Live.com

• Microsoft Goes Yahoo!

  Eileen beat me to the punch on this one.  I am excited by this announcement because some of my favorite sites on the Internet are Yahoo properties such as Flickr and Upcoming.  I also hope that that certain technologies die off like Yahoo messenger... Posted Feb 01 2008, 09:13 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Search, Microsoft, Platform, Live.com, Cool, Op-Ed, CoolLikeFonzie, LAMP, software+services, GoogleCompete, capitalism, ThingsThatCanGetMeFired, New Job

• Tafiti Brightens Up SharePoint Enterprise Search

  Microsoft announced yesterday that Tafiti , the experimental Silverlight front-end for Live Search, has been released under the Microsoft Shared Source Permissive License *it's like BSD*.  Here is the announcement.   Internally this caused a... Posted Dec 19 2007, 10:01 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SharePoint, Search, Windows, Microsoft, Platform, Tools, Accessibility, Live.com, Cool, resources, Silverlight, academic, OpenSource, FreeAsInBeer, MSS

• Just Tafiti It

  I'm always amazed at how quickly the marketing department gets on a roll with great product names like Silverlight , Surface , and Popfly , only to crash into a proverbial brick wall with a name like Tafiti . what is that, like 5 syllabals? Regardless... Posted Sep 19 2007, 08:44 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Webcast, Search, Live.com, Cool, MSAM, Silverlight, interview

• Use Outlook Natively with Hotmail

  The new Hotmail Connector for Outlook was released a few weeks back, oddly I haven't seen anything written about, hence this post. The connector gives the ability to use Outlook 2003 or 2007 with LiveMail/Hotmail natively. For those of you who were big... Posted Sep 10 2007, 06:32 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Vista, Office, Search, Windows, Microsoft, Platform, Backup, Live.com, Cool

• Microsoft about to get back in search game?

  Sean Earp, of Microsoft, is one of a few people I’ve seen gushing about a new version of Microsoft’s search engine coming soon (they have a search press event coming on September 26th). Is Microsoft about to get back into the search game?... Posted Sep 09 2007, 03:27 AM by Scobleizer Filed under: Search, Microsoft, Live.com

• Google’s local search impresses on “notary” search

  We all know Google is cleaning up in the search space, but every so often I’ll check out what the other folks are doing just to see if they are getting close. Today I needed a notary. I work in Palo Alto, so I typed: Palo Alto notary into Google... Posted Mar 16 2007, 04:51 AM by Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger Filed under: Search, Google, Yahoo, Live.com, Ask.com