Bing won the “Best New Startup or Product of 2009” category at the TechCrunch Crunchie awards. Thankfully Harry Shum was able to fly down to be on hand to accept. This is a really great honor for Bing, and an amazing statement that the community voted us in. You can read the coverage and watch Harry Shum’s humorous acceptance speech.
Congrats to the team on building a truly amazing product!
I just receive notification that VS2010 and .NET 4 will be launch on April 12, 2010. There will be a public RC for both technologies in February.
Went though my email this morning and saw an article published by the official Google blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html
From the sound of it, it seems that they are seriously considering to either get any censorship lifted on Google’s service in China or they’ll move out for good. Pretty interesting considering the fact that China’s growth and scale has been rising over the past few years and Google seems to be willing to lose out a big piece of pie for the sake of total freedom of speech.
You can read more in the link above. I’ll be seeing how the Chinese government will react to their decision and their request.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Just Got Easy
Today, Microsoft announced a monthly spotlight series, beginning with the SEO Toolkit, an extension for IIS.
Start with the free download, review your website, and make changes fast. The SEO Toolkit with its detailed analysis and search engine friendly suggestions helps improve the relevance of your website in search results right away.
The SEO Toolkit will help you:
· Increase website traffic and revenue
· Influence and update search engines
· Improve customer experience
For more information or to download, please visit the Free SEO Toolkit page.
SEO Just Got Easy: Microsoft highlights the free SEO Toolkit to increase website traffic and revenue http://bit.ly/7haUxX
