Word: msn
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...detail that's missing from Bing's home page is any mention of Microsoft. (There are small tabs that link to MSN and Windows Live, but they're easy to miss.) Omitting Microsoft's name is no accident - it's an effective way of positioning Bing as a cool new search engine rather than a site sponsored by a gigantic corporation that's often seen as the antithesis of cool. (See the best social-networking applications...
...market has been worried about newspapers for two or three years. Large Web properties, including Yahoo!, MSN, AOL and CNN.com, were not a big concern to Wall Street. They were supposed to grow at a rate of 20% a year, unabated, forever. That has not worked out as planned, and it is not the economy. The recession may have hastened the decaying of online growth, but it did not cause...
...released the new program “Ask Us Live!” that connects students with librarians Thursday through Sunday from 3:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The system operates through the web messenger Meebo, which requires no downloads and can access Google, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, and MSN accounts. Students can reach the service through a link in the upper left-hand corner of HCL’s Web site. Participating librarians undergo a 10-minute training session to practice instant messaging through Meebo. During the service’s hours, they answer questions while conducting their normal...
...Gates built or bought all manner of things to conquer the Net, but few managed to be anything more than also-rans in the innovation game. In 1995, he launched a gated online service, MSN; a Web-based email client, Hotmail was purchased in 1997; a search engine, MSN Search, launched in 1998 using a third-party product as its core; a chat client, Messenger, was released in 1999; and last year it bought an online advertising platform, aQuantive and became a significant, though minority investor, in social network Facebook...
...always get forgotten in all the excitement, don't you? Well, you probably won't see any noticeable changes for a while. Eventually--this could take years--MSN and Yahoo! will merge, Live Search and Yahoo! Search will merge, Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail will merge, and so will the two instant-messaging services. You'll see some minor technical glitches along...