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Windows Live QnA Beta on the way!

The Windows Live QnA Beta can’t be to far away now, as the Windows Live QnA Beta Team have sent out the following email to people who signed up to beta test Windows Live QnA:

Thanks for signing up to try the Windows Live QnA Beta.

We’ve had a lot of people sign up to try QnA. So please bear with us while we get you set up with QnA, the service that will let you get and give answers based on personal experience. You’ll have the chance to be among the first to try QnA when it’s ready.

In the meantime, check out the QnA blog to keep up on the latest developments:

http://spaces.msn.com/liveqna

Thanks again for your interest in Windows Live QnA Beta.

Best regards,
The Windows Live QnA team

2 thoughts on “Windows Live QnA Beta on the way!

Windows Live : Some more on Search August 27, 2006 at 7:07 pm

[…] Some more on Search Last week, ComScore released some search numbers that were pretty sobering for MSN and Windows Live. Google continues to not only lead but gain in the market, and while there has been lots of activity on the MSN side, it actually lost significant market share in the last three month period. Of course the whole naming/branding confusion thing doesn’t seem to be helping matters much, or the idea to wait til Windows Live products are out of beta, sometime in the fall, to begin to market them. And yet, it’s still very early in the game. At Supernova in San Francisco, the consensus was that search still has a long way to go. Microsoft is hiring hard for Search, expecting to double the number of developers working on search in the next year from some 40 to 80+, and estimates that about 10% of the work needed in search is done, with 90% to come. Windows Live Search will soon be featured across all Windows Live properties – Spaces, Messenger, Live.com, Windows Live Mobile, Live Local, etc., areas where it won’t be necessary to offer search engine choices. The marketing push, while it’s not here yet, will soon come hot and heavy, along with the kind of gradual improvements we’ve been noting here, such as cached pages. And new features and properties, from QnA, expected out in beta soon, to search macros, to book and acedemic search, to third party solutions built on a more open Windows Live platform, will all add value to search. Is Microsoft going to topple Google in the short term? Of course not. Does MS have the expertise, the experience, and the deep pockets to take a long term approach to getting lots better at search? Early indications are it does. Time will tell, but it’s still very, very early. Perhaps best of all, no matter who “wins”, search is bound to get better. note: edited to fix a stupid spelling error. Published Sunday, August 27, 2006 7:03 PM by Kip Kniskern […]

Windows Live : Some more on Search August 30, 2006 at 5:37 am

[…] Some more on Search Last week, ComScore released some search numbers that were pretty sobering for MSN and Windows Live. Google continues to not only lead but gain in the market, and while there has been lots of activity on the MSN side, it actually lost significant market share in the last three month period. Of course the whole naming/branding confusion thing doesn't seem to be helping matters much, or the idea to wait til Windows Live products are out of beta, sometime in the fall, to begin to market them. And yet, it's still very early in the game. At Supernova in San Francisco, the consensus was that search still has a long way to go. Microsoft is hiring hard for Search, expecting to double the number of developers working on search in the next year from some 40 to 80+, and estimates that about 10% of the work needed in search is done, with 90% to come. Windows Live Search will soon be featured across all Windows Live properties – Spaces, Messenger, Live.com, Windows Live Mobile, Live Local, etc., areas where it won't be necessary to offer search engine choices. The marketing push, while it's not here yet, will soon come hot and heavy, along with the kind of gradual improvements we've been noting here, such as cached pages. And new features and properties, from QnA, expected out in beta soon, to search macros, to book and acedemic search, to third party solutions built on a more open Windows Live platform, will all add value to search. Is Microsoft going to topple Google in the short term? Of course not. Does MS have the expertise, the experience, and the deep pockets to take a long term approach to getting lots better at search? Early indications are it does. Time will tell, but it's still very, very early. Perhaps best of all, no matter who "wins", search is bound to get better. note: edited to fix a stupid spelling error. Published Monday, June 26, 2006 2:18 PM by Kip Kniskern Filed under: LiveSide, Search, Windows Live […]

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