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Images Results in Live Search and IE8

Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:55 AM by stevecla01
  looks like Kip and I noticed a new feature in Live Search at about the same time. I meant to post about this last week and just forgot…also noticed it only seems to work in the US right now. quite a cool little feature though that gives you image Read More...
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Microsoft Filter Pack

Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 3:55 PM by stevecla01
I just spotted this on Sarah’s blog on 10 – the 2007 Office System Converter: Microsoft Filter Pack. Quite a mouthful but looks like it’s well worth an install. As Sarah says, Windows Search 4.0 is able to search within Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other Read More...
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More Olympic Live Search goodness

Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 7:19 PM by stevecla01
Whilst we can’t access NBC Olympics site that’s streaming with Silverlight here in the UK, I did stumble across some nice Live Search integration with NBC that isn’t so restricted. When I search for UK medals on Live Search I get the results above. I Read More...
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Live Search gets the Olympic treatment

Posted Saturday, August 09, 2008 2:16 PM by stevecla01
beautiful editions of the Live Search home pages for USA and China . Hat tip to Liveside and Mel has some related discussion.  Read More...
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Live Search gets a new home page

Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 10:32 PM by stevecla01
In the US only it seems for now – I like it though and the Live Search blog has all the details. Be sure to check out the hotspots Read More...
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Microsoft Is Hiring

Posted Thursday, June 19, 2008 10:58 PM by stevecla01
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Microsoft’s Ad Imperative

Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 11:53 AM by stevecla01
digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/05/12/microsoft-s-ad-imperative.aspx'; Hardly a week goes by without BusinessWeek having an interesting article on Microsoft at the moment. Last week they had a few including this graphic on the Read More...
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Playing with Powerset

Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 10:20 AM by stevecla01
digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/05/12/playing-with-powerset.aspx'; The much talked about Powerset search engine went live today and though its initial scope is only Wikipedia it’s not a bad place to start. Powerset is dubbed Read More...
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Getting to the top of Google

Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 9:01 PM by stevecla01
digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/05/05/getting-to-the-top-of-google.aspx'; I read Searching to get to the top of Google   in The Sunday Times yesterday and enjoyed it so much I thought I would share here two interesting facts Read More...
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Live Search - less is more

Posted Friday, April 18, 2008 4:06 PM by stevecla01
The Liveside boys are at it again - first in with the news on anything Live related. The directed me to the new ultra clean Live Search interface . To be honest, we should have done this a LONG time ago IMHO. It's just looks so much more elegant and Web Read More...
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600m searches from Facebook coming our way?

Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 10:57 AM by stevecla01
"Exposing the huge Facebook audience to Live Search and monetizing that traffic with paid results is, I'm guessing, a powerful motivator behind this investment," wrote Greg Sterling today Hmm....Josh Catone made me think and then read Don Dodge Read More...
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Live Search Books...wow

Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2007 7:54 AM by stevecla01
I've been playing around with our Live Search Books this evening and for some reason I wasn't expecting too much - I've always thought if I want to check out a book I'll go to Amazon and read some reviews. That just changed a little and turned my book Read More...
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Search the Microsoft UK PTS Team Blogs

Posted Monday, August 27, 2007 11:07 PM by stevecla01
I came across this cool macro feature of Live search earlier today and decided to create a search that would allow me (and now you) to search quickly across all of the UK PTS team blogs. The 7 guys in the group publish some great stuff week in week out Read More...
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Microsoft's Swahili search

Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2007 4:46 PM by stevecla01
I heard about Tafiti last week via internal email and it's out in the wilds already - a very nice UI to search that uses Silverlight. I particularly like the tree view, newspaper view and the drop results on glass pane. As Betanews noted, the name means Read More...
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Microsoft Search Appliance

Posted Friday, July 13, 2007 8:02 PM by stevecla01
I've been meaning to blog about this little puppy for a while as James and Mike in my team have been working hard with Scan Computers in the UK to get this in to the market. What is it? In a nustshell, it's a search appliance running Microsoft Office Read More...
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