DISQUS

Rick Bucich · 7 months ago

It may be Google that allows a foothold for Live rather than anything Microsoft can do themselves. A catastrophic outage for instance could force people to seek assistance elsewhere. Or, perhaps a degradation in the quality of search results over all queries. The problem is that there really isn't a problem with Google results on a wide scale so those affected or dissatisfied will be limited in scope. When the term for search is a verb using the competitors name, I don't see Google's grasp eroding any time soon.
Mark Johnson · 7 months ago

Thanks for the great conversations last night: I look forward to more!

The thing I love about working in search (on company #4 now!) is that it's a very rich problem and we've only scratched the surface of what's possible. Users *think* that they're satisfied, but all search engines do right now is find Web pages. Answering, summarizing, extracting, categorizing - these are (just a few) innovations that are on the cusp of exploring and revolutionizing a user's experience. That's what gets me up every morning =)

-Mark Johnson, Microsoft Live / Powerset Program Manager