Welcome back! This week we’re going to focus on something we all need to do — save cash. True story: I’m about to head to New York City for the rest of the week for a wedding. When I was booking the trip I had many decisions to make...

Today hundreds of researchers from Microsoft’s worldwide labs in China, England, India, and the United States will gather in Redmond to exchange ideas with colleagues, show off their latest projects, and provide a glimpse into the future of computing...

Awards season is an exciting time, especially when it comes to the Oscars. Who will be the big winners this year? Frost/Nixon, Milk, or that movie Slumdog Millionaire that I keep hearing about? Unfortunately, here at Live Search we haven’t yet invented...

Stefan here - long time reader, first time poster. I'm one of the new folks on the Live Search team that Betsy has told you about , and you'll be seeing more from me in the next few months. Seeing is the operative word in that sentence because the Live...

We get asked it a lot. “How do I get more coverage for my site?” Over the past couple of weeks on the Webmaster Center blog , we have been sharing strategies for large sites to help them optimize their sites for search. The series, called “Optimizing...

This week at SMX West you can see members of the Live Search team speaking on a range of search topics . I’ll be there as part of a panel on search user behavior called “Just Behave – A Look at Searcher Behavior”, at 3pm on Wednesday the 11th. It should...

We want to do a quick shout-out post to all of you — some new additions to the Live Search outreach squad and another way to virtually join us at Search Marketing Expo West (SMX) this week! First off, let’s reintroduce the existing members...

Going to California holds a special meaning for those of us up in Vitamin D Deficiency , USA (a.k.a., Seattle). So it’s with double-the-pleasure giddiness that we attend SMX West this year. (Talk about search and catch rays on the side? Dude. We’re...

February is upon us, and for many of us snow addicts, this is one of the most exciting times of the year. And what great luck we have this year! From the Pacific Northwest to Colorado to the Northeast, snow is dumping from above. While others are out...

If you thought you were the only one looking for that special place to take your sweetheart on February 14th, we’ve got some bad news: you’re not alone. Last year searches for the term “ Best Places to Kiss ” was up over 2,500...

Grab a baguette, a little cheese, a bottle of wine, and head to Paris. It’s a click away with the new bird’s-eye images of Paris (and a long list of other locales). These new imagery updates are brought to you by the Virtual Earth team. The Digital Globe...

Search is increasingly becoming a tool to help people accomplish certain tasks. We took a look at some data from 2008 and want to share our findings. Last year people in the U.S. were learning to cook turkeys and to brine them. To argue with their spouses...

IE8 users can now get Live Search instant answers, including financial information, weather conditions, movie show times, calculations, equations, conversions, and definitions directly in the IE8 search box. To see the stock quote answer in action, type...