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Snow reports for skiers and boarders

February 06, 2008, 11:59 PM by Bing | 42 Comments

With the winter in full swing, we're excited to announce snow reports for skiers and snowboarders!  Search for any ski resort in the United States or Canada to get conditions before you head to the mountain.  Links to the resort's site and a link to a map are also shown.

Below is the report for Whistler (a great place in British Columbia):

conditions at whistler-blackcomb

Of course, we have to be careful about showing conditions only when they're relevant. For example, most people may not think of skiing when they search for blackjack, even though that's the name of a mountain in Michigan. In this case we don't show snow conditions unless you specifically ask for them.  Either Blackjack snow report or current conditions at blackjack does the trick.

We also don't show conditions if they haven't been updated by the resort in the past 24 hours.

You can also get conditions in your favorite ski area (try snow at Lake Tahoe) or state.  For example, CO snow report shows top resorts in Colorado with new snow and base depth info:

colorado snow report

To keep things compact (Web results are important!) the four mountains with the most new snow are shown automatically.  If you're interested in one that didn't make the list, a link to the complete snow report is there too.

Check it out - we'd love to hear what you think.

- The Live Search team

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Comments

Ali Abdin

Posted On February 07, 2008, 02:48 AM

Some suggestions: 'summit snoqualmie' (or vice versa) doesn't seem to trigger the snow report although just typing 'snoqualmie' does...It would be great if it could be more intelligent.


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Posted On February 07, 2008, 02:07 PM

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Anonymous

Posted On February 07, 2008, 07:04 PM

Hi,

I'm quite interested in how you are filtering the "blackjack" results.

Is this manual intervention i.e a protected keyword list that includes keywords that could be ambiguous for the snow weather reports or is this using an algorithm?

I am just trying to imagine how the algorithm would be able to filter out those results for you..

I look forward to your response


Alex Gutarin

Posted On February 08, 2008, 03:22 PM

RWB: we use a bit of both. We first algorithmically identify suspect terms (e.g., based on the analysis of volume of queries and some other metrics) and then subject them to an editorial review.


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Posted On February 10, 2008, 10:14 AM

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Posted On February 10, 2008, 01:31 PM

instead of this, make your search results more relevant when  seeking a specific site,

its happened to me a lot that i cant find a site im looking for in live search no matter how many different queries i try while the site appears in 1st place on google in the first query


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哲学

Posted On February 11, 2008, 10:52 PM

if they haven't been updated by the resort in the past 24 hours.


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Posted On February 11, 2008, 10:54 PM

we have to be careful about showing conditions only when they're relevant


中华大典

Posted On February 12, 2008, 07:33 AM

We also don't show conditions if they haven't been updated by the resort in the past 24 hours.


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Posted On February 12, 2008, 07:35 AM

most people may not think of skiing when they search for blackjack


bajar de peso

Posted On February 13, 2008, 08:45 AM

It is a real pitty we don't have this functionality available in Europe. The number of people going ski and the quality of the ski resorts is comparable to the US.


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