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Answers about your madness – March Madness, that is!

It’s that time of the year again: The office pools are going, the sports bars are full, and you’re digging out the colors of your alma mater. Yes, March Madness is already in full swing.

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Active Answers give you flight status

Air travel is always a hassle.  Picking someone up — is the flight on time? Going on a flight — have the terminal and gate changed? You can now check all of this quickly and easily

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Search is more than a text box

Stefan here – sorry for the hiatus. We’ve been out on the road talking to people across the search ecosystem to get their feedback on what we think are some unsolved problems in the sear

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Next Stop: SES NY

To hell with unpacking. As we cast a reflective glance at SXSW and MIX09 in the rearview mirror, Live Search is revving up for Search Engine Strategies in NYC next week.  Members from both sides

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Live Search Accelerators in IE8

Today at MIX09, our friends on the Internet Explorer team announced the general availability of Internet Explorer 8. In IE8, Web users will see a number of Live Search accelerators that make surfing

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Sights and Sounds of MIX09

I was coming out of a doze on the plane from Dallas to Las Vegas and the man next to me with a perfect good ol’ boy Texas drawl said to his friend: “My money has a better time in Vegas th

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MIX09 — News from the show

Scott Guthrie, Corporate VP at Microsoft, officially kicked off MIX09 this morning. If you aren’t at the show, you don’t have time to watch the webcasts, or aren’t following all t

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Flexible API now serving 3B queries per month

Cheers, webmasters and publishers! You may recall that last November we kicked off Project Silk Road featuring the Live Search API 2.0 at PubCon as a broad beta. The idea was to support publishers an

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Next stop: Fabulous Las Vegas for MIX09

10 a.m.-ish Texas time, 4 coffees later, Betsynote:  I had intended to finish this post after breakfast, but it looks like Community Server had other plans while I was eating. :)  Saturday a

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First day of SxSW Interactive: Blogger lounge tweetup, meeting Nadia, pizza!

This is not the Texas weather we are used to; in fact it looks a bit like Seattle today mixed with Chicago style winds. The wet air does not smell of smoke, beer, or bbq; there are no bats. But the In

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