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The Live Search team has just introduced some new features that will be a big hit with MLB fans (for those of you outside the U.S., that means baseball!) You can now do a Live search on your mobile just for the term “mlb” and the results that display will include an MLB dashboard that delivers the…

Are you getting sucked into tracking the Swine Flu news? Are you itching to watch the virus (pandemic?)’s spread at every turn? If so, then check out this new collection on Live Search Maps that highlights the reported cases – both confirmed and unconfirmed – and the routes those folks traveled…

Tellme, a mobile voice search application, has just announced a new app for Windows Mobile 6.5 phones. With the Tellme app, you can press a button and then speak your search query, dial by voice (ex: “Call mom”), or dictate a text message. That last feature – the voice to text option – is something…

This was one of my most enjoyable talks with the team that brings you Live.com.  This time, we dove into the User Experience and User Interface—topics I am personally intrigued by. Have you ever wondered how we make our decisions?  What we do to optimize speed and efficiency? …

For Earth Day, the Live Search team has posted some interesting information from an MSN study which says that almost 70% of Americans said that they would never start composting kitchen scraps nor limit their toilet flushes to conserve water. Oh no! Apparently, going green just isn’t that easy for…

The Live Search team just announced that they’ve launched a new and improved Cashback Shopping site which combines Live Search Products (the product search vertical) and Live Search Cashback (the shopping site that pays you to surf). To try it, go to Live Search Products and click on cashback.  In…

Believe it or not, Search is a relatively new technology.  You probably perform a few searches a day… how satisfied are you with the results? Stefan and I sat down with Martin, a Senior Product Manager on the Search team, to find out the process for improving search and where things may be…

Earlier this month I told you about how you can use Live Search to check your flight status thanks to new one box results that include date, times, departure and arrival points, and links to live tracking provided by Farecast. Now the Live Search team has added in something else, which along with…

You asked to go deeper, we listened.  Stefan and I met with Roopali from the Live Search team. We had a high-level discussion about the 2nd Pillar in project “Silk Road”: the Live Search API 2.0.  This is the very same back end used for some little known websites… like Facebook,…

Live Search has introduced a nifty little feature that I thought was worth passing along: flight status checks. In the search box, you just enter the words flight status along with the airline and flight number. You can abbreviate the airline, too. After entering in the info, do a search and you’ll…