Dear Bing (the Author), We couldn’t help sit up and take notice of your offer of services from one Bing to another. We were moderately surprised and mildly excited. As you might have guessed, today is quite a big day for us. Even so, we dropped...

This morning, Steve Ballmer is speaking at the D Conference where he’s unveiling our new search service — named Bing. Bing is rolling out internally to Microsoft employees worldwide today and will be available to you and your friends in the...

  This Sunday, Andy Samberg will host the 18 th Annual MTV Movie Awards and unveil the winners in categories ranging from best movie to best kiss, and lots in between. As you may remember, we did our first awards show instant answer for the Oscars...

As you may know, our fearless leader Qi Lu will be keynoting SMX Advanced on June 3 in Seattle. We’re looking forward to a good discussion between him and Danny Sullivan about the great stuff we have cooking on the search business. This will be...

Today CNET announced the winners of the 2009 Webware 100 awards (visit the blog post from March for a refresher on the Live Search offerings nominated). Live Search , Live Search Maps , and Live Search Farecast are all winners! The Web 2.0 user community...

There have been a few requests for some international flair on the Live Search team blog, so we thought we’d give you an update on the European Search Technology Centre. Thanks for asking! There have been several important milestones in the creation...

Want to know what’s been going on behind the walls of the Powerset division of Live Search lately? Check out the Powerset blog for the first in a series of Powerset video podcasts. This week Mark Johnson sat down with Dave Fayram , a software engineer...

Today MSN announced a new version of its local offering MSN City Guides , one step in a long term plan to help users stay in the know wherever they are. The new MSN City Guides is an entirely re-vamped site, featuring a new design with integrated Live...

The Live Search mobile team has just launched two great new features to help make the mobile web your own: MSN video search and an MLB dashboard. Looking to fill some time while you’re on the go and feel like grabbing a video news clip from Obama’s...

Are you going to be in the Bay area tomorrow? Do you have a vested interest in search marketing? Know any web developers? Well then, make sure drop in to the Microsoft technology center in Mountain View, CA for a hearty discussion of search marketing...