Back again in 2007, several executives in the past,
Windows 7 Home Premium, Microsoft was touting the advantages it might have in search as a result of its ability to integrate its engine into its very own via the internet properties and items.(Microsoft execs referred to this kind of lookup as “convenience lookup.” Going to a lookup engine and typing in a query there is what they called “destination search.”)Cut to July 9,
Windows 7 Ultimate X64, 2009. Today, Microsoft announced one of those long-promised “convenience search” capabilities with the capability to directly insert Bing lookup results into Hotmail messages. Microsoft has moved from pilot stage to final and has integrated a “Quick Add” feature into Hotmail.From a new posting around the Windows Live Wire blog:“With Hotmail’s quick add feature,
Buy Office Professional 2010, now enhanced with Bing, you can easily lookup, find, and insert content from the net straight into your e-mail messages. With just one click you can add restaurant reviews, movie times, images, videos, maps and more.”To use Quick Add, users can select a category from a new Quick Add pane about the right when composing new e-mail messages. From there, they can directly insert a Bing search end result into their messages.Quick Add is “currently available in select languages and geographies (Australia,
Microsoft Office Standard 2010 Key, Canada, China,
Office 2010 Home And Student Product Key, India, US, and UK), according to the Hotmail team.Microsoft officials said a couple years ago to expect Microsoft to integrate its lookup engine into lots of other Microsoft properties and products — everything from Messenger, to Spaces, to MSN. The Bingification of many these Microsoft entities is already well under way.Will “convenience” search capabilities help Microsoft grow Bing;s share much? Guess we;ll see as the next set of query data starts rolling in….