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Windows Live Search and Local Search comes alive

Microsoft today announced Windows Live Search and Local Search. Microsoft is serious about search. This new version puts Microsoft on the same technical level as Google and Yahoo. Even Jeremy Zawodny from Yahoo likes it. Jeremy is a very professional guy, a tough but fair evaluator of technology.

So, what is new with Live Search?

  • A new design that is clean and fast
  • Bigger index and better ranking algorithms
  • Related searches that help you refine your query
  • Image search is bigger and better
  • Local search - bigger and better index, more white pages listings
  • Birds eye view - more cities covered
  • Live QnA - community based results with voting and ranking.
  • Video search beta - Take a look at this sample search.
  • News - this has been around for a while, but is better now

Search is big business. Local search may be even bigger in the future than today's total search business. The search game is not over. Microsoft is in this for the long term and will continue to innovate.

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Published Tuesday, September 12, 2006 12:49 PM by Don Dodge

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About Don Dodge

I have been in the software business for more than 20 years. I started my software career with Digital Equipment Corp, aka DEC, in the database group. I worked with 5 software start-ups over the next 12 years. Forte Software was the first multiplatform object oriented development environment. AltaVista was the first search engine on the web. Napster was the first P2P file sharing network. Bowstreet was the first web services development environment. Groove Networks was the first secure P2P collaboration platform. Now I am at Microsoft...the biggest start-up in the world... working with VC's and start-ups in the greater Boston area. The goal is to help VC's and start-ups be successful with Microsoft, and together, provide great products for our customers.
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I have been in the software business for more than 20 years. I started my software career with Digital Equipment Corp, aka DEC, in the database group. I worked with 5 software start-ups over the next 12 years. Forte Software was the first multiplatform object oriented development environment. AltaVista was the first sear...
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