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Thursday, April 17. 2008

Microsoft Updates Live Search News - With Geo

Perhaps lost among all the data and client updates of Yahoo, Google and Microsoft recently was this tidbit:

Another feature of the service presents local news stories based on a user's IP address, so users based in Washington will get a strip of results from Washington newspapers and television stations on one side of the page.

Not huge nor unique, but at least Microsoft is looking into local/hyperlocal for news. My first experience with Live Search News was not great - while the IP address of my machine did put me in Massachusetts, all the articles were from the Worcester Telegram. That's a fine paper, but based about 45 miles away. Only one of the 10 stories listed was "near me" in Boston.

- Seattle Times

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Microsoft at 09:05 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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That's awesome. And then eventually they'll even claim that they own it:

http://www.sellyourtvconceptnow.com/orphan.html
#1 Daniel (Link) on 2008-04-19 19:19 (Reply)

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