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flaviussirop
03-09-2006, 11:30 AM
Microsoft Replaces MSN with Windows Live
Microsoft is replacing MSN Search with a new search interface, Windows Live. Currently in beta, Microsoft hopes the new look and functionality will help...
(http://www.live.com/)
Paz
03-09-2006, 12:40 PM
Yeah... and I'm #1 for everything... :D

Still waiting for traffic though....haha

BTW I entered your poem competiton.... 8-|

Cheers,
Paz.
flaviussirop
03-09-2006, 12:44 PM
lol.. thanks! what's your mail ? private message.. I would like to read your poem..
Paz
03-09-2006, 01:10 PM
[QUOTE=flaviussirop]lol.. thanks! what's your mail ? private message.. I would like to read your poem..[/QUOTE]

It's no secret... any 10 year old could have written:

I think that I shall never know,
the ins and outs of SEO.

I stay up late, work every night,
trying to improve my site.

At this time it's lots of stress,
but in the end I'll have success!


I'm waiting for my cheque.... 8-|

Cheers,
Paz.
flaviussirop
03-09-2006, 01:13 PM
loooooooooooooool :)) cute one.. fits me perfect :) lolz.... kool.. nice man! 10x
Web Gazelle
03-15-2006, 07:46 AM
Looks like they can't make up their minds, try going to www.start.com.
flaviussirop
03-15-2006, 08:01 AM
huh.. don't know exackly what's with this start.com... might be theirs or might have the right to use their technology in some way..
didn't read anything about it..
Paz
03-15-2006, 01:33 PM
Hmmmm...

www.start.com Microsoft apparently bought that domain in 1998.

It looks like a regular news site, but if you set switches on your browsers and reload you will find:

this site is not an officially supported site. it is an incubation experiment and doesn't represent any particular strategy or policy. for other incubation experiments, see http://sandbox.msn.com. enjoy!
©2005 Microsoft - privacy - why preview?

And you can have a look at the MSN sandbox. Viral marketing or crass, but certainly one in the eye for Google.
Web Gazelle
03-15-2006, 01:44 PM
Live is cool but I don't know about this start thing. They should go with live.
flaviussirop
03-15-2006, 01:45 PM
nice... where did you find that subtle thing ? really nice.. the always surprising Paz ;)
Paz
03-15-2006, 01:50 PM
[QUOTE=Web Gazelle]Live is cool but I don't know about this start thing. They should go with live.[/QUOTE]
Bill Gates is a Rolling Stones fan... "Start me up" was one of their singles; I'm sure this start.com has BG written all over it.

Cheers,
Paz.
Web Gazelle
03-16-2006, 09:42 AM
Interesting. They could combine the two and get start-live.
trepxe-oes
03-17-2006, 02:53 AM
Where can I get more info about Windows Live...:)
trepxe-oes
03-17-2006, 03:00 AM
I search something on it. It doesn't move ahead. animation keeps running...
JONES
03-23-2006, 04:04 AM
same with me... no results and only a "...loading" animation... either my machine it too slow or the WINDOWS LIVE is.
JONES
03-23-2006, 04:07 AM
wait... i have the results. sorry for spamming this post with duplicate post and lose patience... but was excited enough to tell that this is really good... shows my site among top listing which was under sandbox with few keywords.
BSolveIT
06-08-2006, 05:29 PM
The 'start' of start.com relates to that funny button on the bottom left of your windows desktop.

Back in '98, MS was still in the realms of IE4.01 and the NT4 Option Pack. Sad as it might seem now, in many ways they were streets ahead of anyone you care to think of - but unfortunately more of a 'Jack of all trades' and master of none.

This around the beggining of Microsft "DNA" architecture - which we all use now (even if you dont know it). Distrubuted interNet Applications architecture - taking the 3 tier system for software development to the browser.

Anyway, start.com was the idea of the SQL Server development team who were heavily behind the microsoft backoffice development of inrantets, and the power thereof. SQL Server 7 was getting http integration, XML, and the MS exchange database was integral to almost everything MS wanted to talk about at the time. Oh - plus OLE 2 and OLAP. They were also heavily involved with CORBA, and the moves from COM to DCOM and transaction server. The thing was, that with all this technology that could enable real distrubuted enterprise computing, and transactions, they wanted to be able to demonstrate the capabilities.

Sadly, all they ever devoted the time and money to was smoke and mirrors.

Shame though - could have been great.

:D