Joshua Smith

I can finally say what I’ve been working on for months :) It’s Bing. Check it out:
http://bing.com

Just a preview for now, but the real thing should be live in a few days.

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UPDATE 2009-06-05:
Bing is now live to the world and we’re even advertising! Looks like we actually surpassed Yahoo traffic yesterday too:

Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Search Engine Market Share

I’ve updated my resume (long overdue) and included my experience up to and including my work on Live News Search and xRank. You can find it in PDF format here.

Firstly, I’ve posted a bunch of new photos from Jen’s trip to Seattle here. Fantastic trip and if all goes well, she’ll be coming out to stay in the next couple months :)

Also, we’ve finished up a couple big releases on Live News Search at Microsoft, so take a look if you have a chance: http://news.live.com. The browse page makes a pretty good home page ;)

Well, I finally settled on a blogging system that I like and can prod into conforming with the style of my site.  On that note, my site has a new style, so let me know what you think!  The blog uses WordPress so it should be easily syndicated to Facebook and so forth, obviating the need to post things in multiple places.  I’m planning on using this mainly for personal posting, but I may wind up posting some technical articles as well, so I’m going to start by dividing the blog into Personal and Professional categories.  Anyway, take a peek, post some comments, and send me feedback.