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• Minor Spaces update, and more from Windows Live blogs

  The Space Craft, blog of the Windows Live Spaces team, just announced a minor upgrade to Spaces: you can now include the Messenger IM control and SkyDrive files in the Custom HTML module using embed codes.  Some back end changes have been made to... Posted May 02 2008, 05:50 PM by Kip Kniskern with | with no comments Filed under: MSN, Mobile, Windows Live Product Search, QnA, Live Search, Windows Live Search for Mobile

• Live Search changes: QnA joins in

  Update: Looks like qna.live.com is joining the party, with a new look, too, this one in keeping with the green and blue theme (thanks, AndyD): We’re noticing some other changes, as well, although they seem to come and go. See anything new? Let us know... Posted Apr 29 2008, 08:59 PM by Kip Kniskern with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: QnA, Live Search

• Windows Live QnA - remember them?

  Hey there's a new posting on the Windows Live QnA blog !  Except for one post with just a picture of a heart in October, there hasn't been a post since August of last year.  Anyway, The post introduces "new" Senior Lead Program... Posted Jan 10 2008, 07:02 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: QnA

• Windows Live QnA experiences problems

  A heads up for those of you who use Windows Live QnA beta - apparently it's experiencing some difficulties at the moment: ( from the QnA blog ) Hi folks, The QnA site is currently encountering problems, as many of you have undoubtedly noticed. Please... Posted Jul 31 2007, 04:44 PM by Kip Kniskern with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: QnA

• QnA 3rd (but far behind) in US Market Share: Hitwise

  Hitwise Research Director Leann Prescott has posted the first real stats we've seen on question and answer site market share, and although Windows Live QnA is in third place, Yahoo! Answers is far ahead in the race with 96.1% US Market share. While the... Posted Dec 29 2006, 06:30 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, QnA

• Google Answers closes, only 800 participants

  Straight from the Google blog is the new that Google Answers is closing down , with the acceptance of new questions stop later this week. The surprising admission that they only had about 800 users replying to questions in 4 years of operation does not... Posted Nov 29 2006, 07:30 PM by Chris with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: QnA, Windows Live Search, Google, Yahoo

• QnA adds and improves; Local turns Japanese; a note on VE 3d

  Word is out from Betsy about some new features over at Windows Live QnA , including a new browse page for tags, a new question page interface, the initiation of a content rating system, an email a question to a friend feature, and some improvements to... Posted Nov 08 2006, 05:44 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Live, Virtual Earth, Live Local, QnA

• Amazon launches QnA rival

  If you were in any doubt as to which way most of the big internet portals think search is going, Amazon has made it crystal clear; Askville , Amazon's new social search service, has launched into beta in competition with the likes of Yahoo Answers... Posted Oct 19 2006, 10:29 PM by Chris with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Live Drive, QnA, Amazon

• QnA goes into public beta

  Windows Live Qna is now in a public beta, available at qna.live.com . Betsy Aoki has the details over at the QnA team blog . Disclaimer: USA only Posted Aug 29 2006, 12:16 PM by Chris with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Live, QnA

• Microsoft's social search? You mean Windows Live Answers...

  Business Week : Microsoft plans to unveil a question-and-answer social-search tool in the coming months, says Justin Osmer, senior product manager for MSN. The feature will let users direct questions to a specific universe, such as a group of friends... Posted Apr 14 2006, 01:15 PM by Chris with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Live, QnA

• More Questions and Answers: Windows Live Answers

  Sharp eyed Spaces users (like Chris, below ;)) may have noticed a couple of new modules that appeared briefly, only to disappear (for now), "Questions Asked", and "Questions Answered". (They have disappeared as well from the Australian... Posted Mar 12 2006, 06:58 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Spaces, QnA