Search Champ and personal friend, Buzz Bruggeman , recently announced his company’s release of an ActiveWords agent for MSN Desktop Search ! ActiveWords is a slick application launcher – just type and it will launch apps, search, or jump to websites....

As you may have noticed elsewhere , our teammates at MSR Asia released a Search Result Clustering site & toolbar (good job guys!). It can be used for query disambiguation (example: jaguar ) and sub-topic discovery (example: data mining ). It was developed...

We're thrilled to announce that Dr. Gary William Flake has joined the Microsoft as a Distinguished Engineer; Dr. Flake is the first person outside the company to be hired as a distinguished engineer (DE). Dr. Flake comes from Yahoo where he led their...

Yesterday marks the release of Messenger 7.0 for Windows (and the official launch of Spaces ). If you download the new IM client you’ll see that we’ve added 3 ways to search the web. There’s a search box on the buddy window and you can right-click on...

Hello World. I’ve been quiet for some time now, and I have no good excuses with so much going on in Desktop Search Space (well there was that month in the Bahamas…I wish!). Google went final with their Desktop Search and unveiled a nifty plug-in community...