Live Search : Book search winding down. Actually, what's the opposite to a 'development'? Microsoft is pulling the book digitization project and Live Academic project. Coupled with their announcement on Wednesday that they're bribing people to use their search engine it's pretty clear that Microsoft sees search as one thing, and one thing only - a ...

Is Microsoft going to start moving on search again? There's an internal memo from Kevin Johnson (President, Platforms and Services) doing the rounds at the moment, with the highlight being: On Wednesday, we will be announcing a major new initiative that our search teams have been driving. We are getting better and better with our core ...

Live Search has finally, after much playing around, launched it's new interface. It should look something like this:Live Search interface via kwoutNow, what does that remind you of? Just a teensy bit like the clean crisp Google interface that the world knows, perhaps? Actually enforcing the concept of this should be what a search engine interface ...

Some of Yahoo's Flickr users are less than happy about the potential problems Microsoft may cause them. And they're rebelling in the way they know best, by uploading images to a newly created group: Flickr: MICROSOFT: KEEP YOUR EVlL GRUBBY HANDS OFF OF OUR FLICKR. It currently has just over 1,200 members, with 174 photographs, so it's a fairly ...

I've been invited by Microsoft to their  Searchification 2007 event. This is going to include a Live Search product update, Live Search demonstrations and a session on Webmaster Tools (which if previous experience is anything to go by will be about 'how to make money as a webmaster'). Now, it's really nice to have the invite, and I don't ...

Tafiti Originally uploaded by Philipbradley. Microsoft are experimenting again, this time with a thing called tafiti. Apparently Swahili for 'yet another search engine that no-one wants or needs' or some such. Or maybe just 'to search'. Anyway, it's new, and looks shiny, apart from the image of a very old catalogue card that they use as a search ...