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  Chewy Chong 11:24 am on August 20, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

  Search Olympic Medals with our Olympics Instant Answer 

   

  Are you an Olympics junky?  WE ARE!  So much so … we build a cool feature into Live Search to help you cheer on your country or sport.  No need to surf the links, just get instant answers with the medals tally classified by countries/sports.

  Give it a try, it’s quite fun:
  

  Who’s won swimming medals? Search "swimming medals"
  http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=swimming+medals

  What medals have Thailand won?  Search "Thailand medals"
  http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=medals+for+thailand

  How many medals have China won for shooting?  Search "shooting medals for China"
  http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=shooting+medals+for+china

  Can’t forget our home-grown medalists!
  http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=table+tennis+medals

  Honey (i-homit at microsoft dot com)
  Search Intern

   

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  Chewy Chong 10:50 am on August 20, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

  Meet the Search Family – Honey Mittal (Search Intern) 

   

  Hello southeast Asia!  My name is Honey Mittal and I’m the new Search Intern. I work with Chewy Chong (the Search Guy) helping him manage a bunch of his exciting new projects. I am an undergraduate Computer Engineering Yr 4 Student from National University of Singapore and I will be working here untill Christmas.  There’s a bunch of cool gems in our Search and Maps … and I hope to share them with you throughout my term here.  Any questions/feedbacks, just shoot me an email.

  

  Honey (i-homit at microsoft dot com)
  Search Intern – SEA

   
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  Chewy Chong 2:04 am on August 20, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

  Hello from Your Search Guy for Southeast Asia :) 

  First off, apologies for my readers in Singapore as it has been a heck of a long time since I made a post.  The past few months have been quite hectic.  I’ve changed roles (no longer your Developer Evangelist for Singapore) and am now your Search Guy for Southeast Asia!

  Search Guy… what is that?  Good question, my goal is to help the people in our humble part of the world find and explore more on the web be this through our Search engine or our Maps.  Give it a try…
  

  Our Search – http://www.live.com

  Our Maps – http://maps.live.com

  I’ve been sitting on this post for quite some time as it was hard to convey to all of you what it is we’re trying to do.  Search and maps is only just one piece of something much bigger and focus is not at all on just one single dimension.  So instead of trying to write out some long essay… this video perfectly illustrates the "YOUR digital life" theme all of us here are working towards.

  http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:a8d98d01-7edf-4991-93b7-8554b9608b5a&showPlaylist=true&from=shared

   

  Hmm… notice how Search and Maps are only a small piece of this whole "connected nirvana"?  If you think about it… the focus should be on YOU and how our efforts can complement YOU and what you do everyday.

  There’s lots of work happening behind the scene to make this more and more a reality for Southeast Asia.  Pretty much every piece of what you see in this video sits in or around my team here in Singapore.  They are all super smart and full of ideas.  I wake up everyday excited to go to work as I know there’s much we can do to make all our lives more fun.

  If you keen to know more about what we’re up to or want to make a request… reach out and give me a shout.  I’ll be starting to ramp up my community presentations soon so you can always reach out then.

  Chewy (chewyc at microsoft dot com)
  Head of Search – SEA