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Friday, May 15, 2009 2:03 PM

More goodness from Live search in the UK – phone area codes

Something I discovered yesterday by chance is a great nifty feature in Live Search in the UK.  I often get calls on my mobile from numbers I don’t recognise, especially with area codes that are unfamiliar.  So wanting to find where that area
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Monday, March 02, 2009 3:31 PM

Search Engines Twitters

We have recently had lists of all sort of things about Twitter , such as the Microsoft product twitters .  Well now thanks to Danny Sullivan on search engine land we have the.. The Big List Of Search Engines & Their Employees On Twitters Which
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 9:14 AM

And The Oscar For Best Search Engine For Oscar Winners Goes To … Microsoft Live & Ask.com

The Oscar’s passed me by as usual but this article didn’t And The Oscar For Best Search Engine For Oscar Winners Goes To … Microsoft Live & Ask.com Nice work and kudos tot eh Windows Live Search teams as Danny Sullivan points out ‘… these type of
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Friday, November 21, 2008 7:59 PM

Windows Live Search feature maybe you didn’t know about

lifted from a thread from an internal email discussion, a few things about Windows Live Search that maybe you didn’t know about: You can do simple or complicated maths such as sqrt(3^2+5^2) You can ask factual questions which it’ll answer from Encarta,
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Monday, October 20, 2008 8:11 PM

Big Snap Search 2 launches today

You may remember back in April a Live Search marketing campaign that allowed you the chance to win prizes every time you searched using Windows Live Search . Well its back again giving you the chance to win ‘ thousands of pounds worth of vouchers that
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 11:10 AM

Its great when you discover stuff that just works how you think it should (weather from Windows Live Search)

I am sure it is something that has been around for ages, and it all also exists for other search engines, but it is great when you get surprised that something just work they way you expected it! So WFH (working form home) today and my wife popped her
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Monday, October 13, 2008 12:57 PM

Cricket and Live search in India

Nice little touch from Live search in India , if you enter in any cricket related search term such as India Test match cricket score you get a great result showing the latest match score (seems very up to date within an hour at least) and links to schedules
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Friday, September 19, 2008 1:14 PM

Search Engine Rap Battle - MSN vs Google

Well it is friday… Search Engine Rap Battle - MSN vs Google thanks to Matt over on the Windows Live Channel for the link Rob Technorati Tags: Live Search , Google , Yahoo
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 3:19 PM

18 IE8 Videos (easier browsing and live search amongst others.

My old friend Liam Kelly (UK DPE Partner Lead) has pointed towards the latest videos about using IE8 , and there are 18 of them up on YouTube the 2 most recent added within the last 24 hours are Easier Browsing and Live Search Well worth looking at if
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 10:18 AM

Life beyond the pc on mobile.microsoft.com

So it looks like http://mobile.microsoft.com is now also showing the new updated styling of the Windows homepage and also some nice new content. The little video to download is pretty cool and is worth watching, you might start to see some themes coming
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:42 AM

Windows Work Anywhere Demos

Yesterday i mentioned the Windows Digital Photos Demos now available on Microsoft.com. So i thought today I would highlight 3 more demos around working from anywhere with Windows : 1. Work anywhere 2. Find more with Windows Live Search 3. Stay connected
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 3:49 PM

Yes you really can do all of this with Microsoft Software

Your Digital Lifestyle: Girl from Mars spotted in the comments of Kirks blog Rob Technorati Tags: Microsoft
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 10:45 AM

Update - hard to find Windows Vista help and how-to articles

Just a quick update to my post http://blogs.msdn.com/robmar/archive/2008/06/27/hard-to-find-windows-vista-help-and-how-to-articles.aspx from last week. So we are seeing some changes to what content is now being indexed (see table below) Article Yahoo
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Friday, June 27, 2008 12:04 PM

Hard to find Windows Vista help and how-to articles

One of the tools we use internally to try and understand what is happening with our content on the Windows Help and How-to site is looking to see if any articles for whatever reason are not indexed by the major search engine (Google, Yahoo, Live etc).
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 4:16 PM

Viral Windows Live Search Videos

You may be aware of the new Windows Live Search , well there are some viral videos as always to go with it: Rob Technorati Tags: Microsoft Live Search Instant answers , tcetv
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