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You may have noticed I haven't made a posting here for a couple days. You, like many others, were probably sitting on the edge of your seat salivating for the next "Why Vista?" post only to be denied not once, but twice! What in the world...
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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...
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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...
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Tonight a new search engine showed up. Techcrunch has the details. So do tons of other blogs. Search engine guru Danny Sullivan has a great post about the new engine, Cuil, (pronounced “cool”). I wasn’t pre-briefed or anything. Like...
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A bit redundant since Community Server blogs are already indexed and has search built in, but in case you are rolling your own site - grab the HTML to add a Live Search bar to your site. See left nav (at 180 pixels wide). Share this post: Read More.....
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On Thursday I interviewed a few executives at Microsoft. A few of those videos will have to wait in line (we have two weeks of inventory that needs to get done first) but because of the Yahoo/Google deal I think this one needed to be out ASAP so Rocky...
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It no longer is about Data Portability.
I’m hearing these rumors too that John Furrier (my ex-boss) is reporting. That Microsoft will buy Yahoo’s search and then buy Facebook for $15 to $20 billion.
That just changed the whole argument of...
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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...
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Microsoft ha lanzado al mercado una poderosisima herramienta que permitirá a los usuarios tener una mejor experiencia cuando busca información Con Microsoft Search server 2008 express en cuestión de minutos podrás acceder a la...
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Bink.nu has an extensive list of new software that Microsoft will be unleashing in the marketplace. It is amazing to be part of this company during a time where there has been just dramatic change product life-cycles. This is in stark contrast...
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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...
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I know a few of you who attended my presentation on Search Server 2008 had questions regarding wildcard search capabilities. Sammy Jankis sums up SharePoint's wildcard search functionality pretty well. After reading his article you find that...
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Microsoft is excited announce two new product offerings. Search Server 2008 and 2008 Express will allow organizations to easily implement enterprise search capabilities in their environment irrespective of SharePoint, which was required for our...
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Microsoft’s Kevin Schofield (he is an executive who works at Microsoft Research) confirmed today that China is redirecting traffic from Google and Microsoft’s search engines to Chinese Baidu.
Quote? “That really sucks.” Share this...
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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...
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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?...
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I received some emails regarding my article on a Vista Search bug . The article stated that the bug would be fixed in SP1, but it was unclear on what settings would change. The original article read, "As it turns outs, the quick fix was to change the...
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I thought people might find this fix interesting because it annoyed the hell out of me when I first started using Vista. In the XP days, I was a huge Windows Desktop Search (WDS) fan, and like many WDS fans Vista search wasn't that exciting because of...
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I was talking to a customer (I know he reads this blog, so no names). He was having some trouble because two parts of Microsoft weren't communicating the way you'd expect them to. And I said in passing that one thing which we are unjustly accused of from...
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Is this the issue that Ask and Microsoft will get some PR traction on? From my read of how people are responding to Google lately the answer is “yes.”
Google has not opened up its PR to grassroots bloggers that I can tell. Even big-name journalists...
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