Greg Linden shares his thoughts on some of the MSR papers from this year’s SIGIR. You can find the full-list of the papers on the MSR site. MSN Search’s Erik Selberg notes that “Microsoft researchers co-authored 16 of 79 papers accepted into SIGIR (20...

One of the key elements of having a great index is having fresh content. If someone searches for Vista on the day that we announced the name for the next version of Windows then they should be able to see relevant results. This means that we need to have...

Hello Everyone! After a lot of hard work from the people here and our partners you can now see local Weather reports in the MSN Search Toolbar. Just download our brand-new Weather Add-in and you’ll be able to view a three day forecast at a glance with...

The MSN Search and MSN Mobile teams have recently collaborated and are excited to deliver the MSN Local Search Beta to your mobile device! Currently available in the US, Mobile Search is available on Windows Mobile devices, as well as new phones with...

When you get asked the same question a half million times a day, you better have a good answer! I’m happy to announce that MSN Search has partnered with the MSN Money team to add a stock quote instant answer for stock related searches. You may ask, what...

What’s MSN Search doing? How are we doing it? Where are we going? As mentioned on JobsBlog and on AlwaysThinking , MSN Search is going to be in Silicon Valley tonight. Christopher Payne, VP of MSN Search, Ken Moss, GM of Web Search, and Dane Glasgow,...

We launched Virtual Earth Beta a week ago yesterday, and the response has been overwhelming to say the least. We’ve received a ton of feedback and suggestions from users via email, reviews, and blogs (Check out Jeremy Wright’s review , Austin Pauls' comments...