W00t! Microsoft's Bing bites Google back, jumps 6% as noted by Brier Dudley today in the Seattle Times... "Microsoft's underdog search engine saw a jump in market share over the last month, increasing its U.S. market share 6 percent, according to an Experian Hitwise report today. Google's U.S. market...

As I noted in a post yesterday in a few tips on what to know about moving to a new Windows Phone 7, there are a number of apps available for the platform – with many of the apps I've been using over the last couple of years. But I was wondering how to look for new apps when I'm not on the phone...

Next on my list customer and partner challenge or issue per day is FAST, which Microsoft acquired in April of 2008… FAST Search & Transfer, to be specific… "Today, Enterprise Search from Microsoft offers best-in-class technologies and cutting-edge innovations that fuel our vision of search:...

Want to know more about Microsoft's new Bing ? Then take a look at the new Bing Interactive Product Guide , the Virtual Press kit (filled with screen shots, fact sheets and more) On Monday, you'll have a chance to learn even more in a live, interactive webcast where you will see examples of Bing and...

New from Live Search: Search And Give ... Whether it's your local school or an effort to find a cure, Search and Give will donate a penny each time you use this page to search the Web. How does it work? Sign in to select a charity or school (this is easy) Start searching from the Search & Give home...

Satya Nadella announced today that we are ending the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects -- together accounting for 750,000 digitized books and 80 million indexed journal articles -- and the sites will be taken down next week. "This also means that we are winding down our digitization...

In the article "The Future of Customer Service" on msnbc.com (from - Entrepreneur.com), writer Sarah Pierce looks at the impact of the Internet and now-ubiquitous mobile technology on consumer expectations of customer service. We've come a long way in the last few years since PC World's report a couple...

And I thought that it was a chore to digitize our papers at home... that's nothing as compared to the effort to scan 25 million pages... Raissa Kasolowsky from Reuters reports here on one project associated with the Live Search Books effort . The article calls out some of the challenges of adding content...