Live Search

It seems to me that 2009 has been and will continue to be a great year for Microsoft. First of all the company launched Bing, a new search engine that replaced Live Search and which is growing every day, second they signed a 10-year agreement with Yahoo in order to reinvent search technology and to [...]

Although it was supposed to go live on June 3rd, Bing has been launched today and it’s now available for everyone. You can start searching now and see what results it returns. For me the search results look a lot like the former Live Search, but Bing is still in early Beta therefore we should [...]

A few days ago we reported that Microsoft is preparing to release a new search engine technology called Kumo. It’s also certain that Kumo is available for limited public testing, and from what we know, the new search engine will not be something like Google, Yahoo, Wolfram Alpha, or Google Squared. We don’t know exactly [...]

After Google created its own version for Swine Flu Map using their Google maps, it was Microsoft’s turn to create the 2009 Swine Flu H1N1 Outbreak and Migration Map which IMO is much better than Google’s version. Thanks to the maps.live.com service, Microsoft managed to build a more complex Swine Flu map which shows you [...]