Betsynote: As I type this in for Jamie, it is hot. Darn hot. Too sunny-must-go-kayak-on-the-lake-hot.... This is not the Seattle I know! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Around this time of year, a lot of us here...

When we launched our search engine for the first time in 2005, we knew we'd be doing a bunch of catch-up. One thing customers really wanted from us that Google and Yahoo! had was HTTPS search - that is, the ability to expose non-secure areas of Web sites...

Very soon, we will release a feature of Windows Live Search built into Windows Live Messenger that we think will help you while chatting with your friends. Tell us what you think! You can try this new Search feature from the activities menu of conversation...

On April 18 th , MSDN launched site-wide its first effort in improving the customer search experience by building a targeted UI that is powered by the MSN SOAP API. This allowed us to offer our customers the following benefits: · Improved Performance...

We’re getting a ton of great feedback on Windows Live Search. One of the most common requests is to build the instant answers already available on MSN Search. We hear you and are working hard to get them all in. In fact, we just recently launched our...

(Betsynote:Yes, I know it's a mouthful of a label! But it's pretty cool!) Our friends over on the Mail Desktop team have been experimenting with ways to bring search right into a user’s inbox experience . Imagine you’ve received an email about the Arlo...

We on the Search team want to congratulate the 12 winners of the Microsoft Live Labs "Accelerating Search in Academic Research” Awards. Researchers from 36 countries submitted proposals for research to advance the field of search. The 12 winners will...