One sure bet in Vegas this time of year is the gadget geekdom that is CES (Consumer Electronics Show). Live Search is proud to be part of the excitement, as we’ll be demoing all our latest features in the Microsoft booth at the center of this tech typhoon (located in the Central Hall, C2, Booth 7144). See how we’re making it easier to find the best multimedia content out there. Watch xRank stretch beyond celebrity search. Discover local gems with our improved Local Search. So if you’re headed to CES, be sure to come by. Let’s chat search!
The team will also be out on the town, so we’ll probably run into you! Are you a blogger attending the “It Won’t Stay in Vegas” blogger party on Jan 9th? One of our newest search evangelists, Stefan Weitz, will be out and about at the party connecting with folks from the blogosphere. If you bump into him, please do school him on your thoughts on what you like about Live Search and what we can do better.
And don’t forget Steve Ballmer’s debut making his pre-show keynote on the night of Jan 7th. Be sure to catch it if you can.
Aya Zook, Product Manager, Live Search
Why even bother demoing Live Search? No offense, but it is so far behind every other search engine that people will try it once and leave. For instance, try doing a search for 'Quantum of Solace Video Game'. I mean, come on, even ask.com gets the correct answer.
I would love to see Live search as a competitive search engine but it just isn't worth demoing yet...give it five years and you might be on to something. Steve Ballmer keeps talking about more than 10 blue links so maybe you can innovate there..doubt it...but who knows.
david - ask.com is actually a good search engine, it just struggles with freshness.
Microsoft - no post about the updated xRank?
Hi Ian - We posted in October when we launched the xRank changes. If you see that we missed talking about a feature you love, let us know!
You can find the post here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2008/10/17/xtreme-movers.aspx
