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Descent into the video posting maelstrom

Yesterday I drove out to Redmond (which can take anywhere from 25 minutes to 2 hours depending on traffic - actually made great time) to meet with Mike Torres and talk a bit about Windows Live Movie Maker, which was released as version 1.0 on a couple...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2009 12:39 AM by Kip Kniskern

Filed under: LiveSide, Google, Movie Maker, YouTube
Hotmail adds POP – GMail makes hay

Well it was probably only a matter of time, but GMail has introduced a new feature that makes it easier for users of other email services with POP access to migrate their accounts. Of course Hotmail, after what seemed to be an eternity, recently added...

Published Thu, May 05 2009 9:08 AM by Kip Kniskern

Filed under: Hotmail, Google
Image search for “the north face”: Bug, or Feature?

Sometimes on Twitter Search you see a bunch of re-tweets, a “twitmeme”, if you will. Right now a big one is “Microsoft embraces Open Source Big Time for Kumo” (eh, what?, more on that later). Another one that caught our eye was this...

Published Sat, May 05 2009 1:49 PM by Kip Kniskern

Filed under: Google, Live Search, Live Search Images
Google patches Chrome browser to work with Hotmail

We’ve been seeing lots of complaints on Twitter and elsewhere about Hotmail not working in Google’s new browser, Chrome . So today, rather than waiting for Hotmail to address the problem, Google patched Chrome to work with Hotmail, by adding support...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2009 11:59 PM by Kip Kniskern

Filed under: Hotmail, Google, Featured
Live Search gains with advertisers (so does Google)

According to search marketing firm AdGooroo , first page advertising activity on the top three search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Live Search) was up sharply in the first two months of the fourth quarter. We estimate that Microsoft has increased their advertiser...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2009 1:56 PM by Kip Kniskern

Filed under: Advertising, Google, Live Search
Google Maps: We’re not evil, just not very good

Apparently there’s been a bit of a stir around what Google Maps did/didn’t do to their maps of the country of Georgia. In a blog post today , Google says they haven’t done anything to their maps in relation to the conflict currently affecting Georgia...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2008 8:32 PM by Kip Kniskern

Filed under: Google, Live Maps
Google Maps Street View “drive-bys” Microsoft and Live Maps

A Google Maps Street View car was spotted on the Microsoft campus the other day, according to a post over on Gizmodo. Apparently the “GooCar”, as Gizmodo calls it, got a little too close to Building 116, where Live Maps resides: the Google guys...

Published Sat, Jun 06 2008 11:30 PM by Kip Kniskern

Filed under: Google, Live Maps
Red Dog: Ray Ozzie's answer to the Google App Engine?

( Note: while we've been serving up a number of potential new Windows Live logos recently, this isn't one of them. I just happen to like Clifford the Big Red Dog ) Much has been made recently about last night's announcement of the Google App...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2008 6:09 AM by Kip Kniskern

Filed under: Developer, Amazon, Google, Windows Live Core, Ray Ozzie, cloud computing
New Compete.com search share numbers show surprising surge for Live Search

Compete.com released their version of March US search market share numbers on Friday , showing a surprising surge for Live Search, up nearly 4 percentage points from February (a notoriously slow, and short, month), and up .7% year over year. In addition...

Published Sat, Apr 04 2008 7:49 AM by Kip Kniskern

Filed under: Google, Live Search
comScore posts January 2008 search share numbers, Yahoo takes a hit

comScore just posted their search share numbers for January 2008 and it's bad news for Yahoo. Yahoo took a 0.7% hit, while Google got a small 0.1% bump. Windows Live remained the same as last month, so there is not much to report there. Even though...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2008 6:00 PM by Harrison Hoffman

Filed under: Google, Yahoo, Live Search
Nielsen Online Web stats for UK in 2007: Google, WL Messenger in lead

Nielsen Online released some interesting web statistics for 2007 in the UK last week, which we found via Mess.be . Google Search was the most popular website in the UK in 2007, averaging 25.1 million British visitors each month, with MSN/WL Messenger...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2008 6:37 AM by Kip Kniskern

Filed under: Messenger, Hotmail, Google
Microsoft, Yahoo!, the merger and Google - Online Video

First let's take a look at some comScore statistics on this one: Google Video Sites: Google Video YouTube Yahoo! Video Sites: Yahoo! Video Yahoo! Live Microsoft Video Site(s): MSN Video (includes Soapbox) Note: YouTube.com accounted for more than...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2008 5:48 PM by Sunshine

Filed under: Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Video, MSFT-YHOO
Microsoft, Yahoo!, the merger and Google - Instant Messaging

Time to take a closer look at IM. Here we can see that worldwide MSN-Windows Live Messenger is taking a big lead, whereas Yahoo! Messenger is taking the lead in the U.S. Google is way behind. Some features compared: Instant Messaging Clients MSN-Windows...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2008 4:42 PM by Sunshine

Filed under: Microsoft, Messenger, Google, Yahoo, MSFT-YHOO
Microsoft, Yahoo!, the merger and Google - Mail

Last time we took a look at Search, let us take a look at Mail now. Looking at the above, the rankings are: 1. Yahoo! - Yahoo! Mail 2. Microsoft - Windows Live Hotmail 3. Google - Gmail In this area, what would a Microsoft/Yahoo! merger mean? Google is...

Published Sun, Feb 02 2008 6:43 PM by Sunshine

Filed under: Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Mail, MSFT-YHOO
Microsoft, Yahoo!, the merger and Google - Search

Lots of talk about the Microsoft proposal to Yahoo. Google has made an offer to Yahoo! now too. Looks like the battle over Yahoo! and it's services has begun. Let us take a look at Search. Search - December 2007 Microsoft Yahoo Google Searches million...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2008 2:05 PM by Sunshine

Filed under: Microsoft, Search, Google, Yahoo, Live Search, MSFT-YHOO

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