Harvesting the Best Answers from Ask.com’s AnswerFarms! Earlier this year we blogged about Ask.com’s AnswerFarm™ technology – our proprietary method of crawling and extracting question/answer pairs from hundreds of thousands of sources, including us

Category :Other Search Engines | 90 views | read more | 2009-06-17 09:00:00

Update on SafeSearch You may have read our post last week where we talked about how Smart Motion Preview and SafeSearch work together. As we mentioned, Microsoft is never done when it comes to providing tools to help cus

Category :Msn | 106 views | read more | 2009-06-12 16:00:00

Join us June 1st @ 10am PT for the Bing Webcast Want more Bing?  How about an interactive Webcast where we’ll walk you through all the cool features in our new decision engine.  Sure you could read the Product Guide (located here)

Category :Msn | 150 views | read more | 2009-05-29 15:35:00

Next best thing to Bing Have you been itching to try out Bing? Looking longingly at the screenshots around the Web wondering how those lucky few got early access? Wondering who you have to know to get an invite code to chec

Category :Msn | 162 views | read more | 2009-05-29 06:51:00

A Letter to Bing Dear Bing (the Author),   We couldn’t help sit up and take notice of your offer of services from one Bing to another.  We were moderately surprised and mildly excited. As you might have gu

Category :Msn | 185 views | read more | 2009-05-28 16:22:00

The sound of found: Bing! This morning, Steve Ballmer is speaking at the D Conference where he’s unveiling our new search service — named Bing. Bing is rolling out internally to Microsoft employees worldwide today

Category :Msn | 221 views | read more | 2009-05-28 02:30:00

MTV Movie Awards on Live Search This Sunday, Andy Samberg will host the 18th Annual MTV Movie Awards and unveil the winners in categories ranging from best movie to best kiss, and lots in between. As you may remember, we did our f

Category :Msn | 175 views | read more | 2009-05-27 03:33:00

Live Search Makes Playoff Searches Easier When I last blogged, Derek Jeter searches had tripled and major league baseball was in full swing. Fast forward a few weeks, and while Derek Jeter is probably still a top search (when is he not?), som

Category :Msn | 165 views | read more | 2009-05-26 17:47:00

What Do You Want to Ask Qi Lu? As you may know, our fearless leader Qi Lu will be keynoting SMX Advanced on June 3 in Seattle. We’re looking forward to a good discussion between him and Danny Sullivan about the great stuff we hav

Category :Msn | 198 views | read more | 2009-05-20 14:51:00

Thanks for Asking! Ask.com is a Webware 100 Award Winner Three Years Running Today Ask.com was recognized as a 2009 Webware 100 award recipient in the “Search and Reference” category, which specifically gives a nod to our innovative search tools and our technology that fi

Category :Other Search Engines | 196 views | read more | 2009-05-19 15:07:00