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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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Get a Sharepoint Search eval kit

Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2007 3:56 PM by stevecla01
Courtesy of Mr Pallot - our behind the firewall search technology is pretty smoking. Fancy a trial? What is this going to do for you? Well if you're a Microsoft Partner it's the answer to any questions around a Google Appliance. Hop on over to Mike's Read More...
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Microsoft Live Search for finding Blogs and RSS Feeds

Posted Sunday, March 25, 2007 3:27 PM by stevecla01
Some new features are quietly being added to Live Search around RSS, blogs etc. Amit has a pretty good round up of them. Check out http://search.live.com/feeds/ which has a beta of a Live Search for blogs similar to Google Blog Search . Link to Microsoft Read More...
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Get a free Information Revolution t-shirt

Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 3:06 PM by stevecla01
I was ensnared in this ad campaign last week on my way home from Heathrow on the tube. So much so that I whipped out my S620 smartphone and surfed on over to http://www.information-revolution.org On a small screen I got the gist of things and thought Read More...
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Live Search Gadget

Posted Thursday, March 08, 2007 6:01 PM by stevecla01
The gadgets are starting to come thick and fast now that Vista is out there. Check out this very cool new one from the Live search guys . This lightweight gadget uses a web service to fetch your search results and render them directly in the widget for Read More...
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Google search is expensive!

Posted Friday, February 23, 2007 10:45 AM by stevecla01
Found this via Ben's blog and whilst I'm not really saying Google search is expensive -it's free right - this is pretty funny. As Ben says, to set the context Millionaire host Eddie McGuire is also the boss of channel 9 in Australia who have a stake in Read More...
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Change the world with a search

Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2007 2:20 AM by stevecla01
Forget the Blue Monster for a second - this is real change the world stuff. I blogged about NineMillion a while back but I wanted to tell you more about this and how you can get involved. Use the Live Search page up to March 31st, Microsoft will make Read More...
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