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Here in Search, we are always interested in hearing about ways to improve the search experience. And, along with Danny Sullivan and Dave Winer, customers have let us know that they wanted us to change how we used Open Directory descriptions in search results. So… we did!   Just to give some background, the Open Directory Project at dmoz.org is a repository of millions of human-edited descriptions. Even though these human-edited descriptions provide a lot of value, with human editing may come human error, bias, descriptions getting outdated, or the editor’s text may simply not suit the webmasters who want to be represented in their own way.   What has bothered the webmasters previously is that when search engines preferred search result descriptions from dmoz.org, they did not empower webmasters to opt-out of those descriptions. This can be especially annoying if the descriptions from dmoz.org are outdated, or just plain inaccurate.   We had one customer who was frustrated because the ODP description of their site mentioned “favours” and was listed under Canada when their site was actually in the United States and was spelled as “favors”. All they wanted was a way to specify that MSN Search should use the description from their page instead of using ODP.   So what we did was introduce a new option at the page level  - a robots meta tag – that tells the MSN search bot not to use the DMOZ site snippet.  This is something that only can be done at Web page level, by a webmaster, and is not done as part of the robot.txt file.   So in your Web page you’d put     or     In theory the first of these applies to all crawlers and the second just to us. As far as we know right now, we are the only search engine  to support this  tag, so the two are the same for the moment. But when others follow suit, you could use the second tag to get only MSN to ignore ODP content for your page. A word of caution: Putting either tag in your pages will not make your search results descriptions change immediately – they will change once our crawler has re-crawled the page. Usually that takes about 1 day -4 weeks for us to re-crawl you (ok, that sounds odd, but we hope you know what we mean).  :)     Try it out, and give us your feedback!     Girish Kumar, MSN Search Development Lead  

On April 19th we released a new version of site search for MSNBC.com built entirely on the MSN Search platform. This is a great improvement from our previous site search solutions and one we think that people will find really useful for searching news. Take a peek at http://msnbc.msn.com and try searching for a few of the topics in the news like E3, gas prices or (my personal favorite) Britney Spears. To provide results we have taken advantage of both the news and web indexes. When something is current in the news you will find recent results in the top section of the first page. For topics that do not have any recent coverage on MSNBC we also provide results from our archive. Implementation was pretty simple for our engineering team. We used the MSN Search API to retrieve a few different sets of data for each query we receive and then assemble them when rendering the results. We took advantage of some of the advanced query operators to scope the results right for news. Each query uses a set of pre-defined operators to set the correct domain and allows us to filter the results a bit to return specific types of pages. Adding a few extra SearchTags to all of our pages allows us to do things such as return only stories and filter out category pages from the results. Also adding the path to a photo as a SearchTag enables us to add thumbnails to the results on the fly.  If you have never heard of SearchTags you should definitely check out this post. The end result of all of this is that it makes it much easier for us to add new features without having to totally change our whole application. For example will be able to easily add advanced search options in an upcoming release as all the functionality is already in place, we now just need the UI. We have just started down the path of making news search on MSNBC into a great experience and will continue to add features such as advanced search and photo search over the next couple of months. We are reading every piece of feedback we receive so if you have any comments or feature suggestions just let us know:http://feedback.search.msn.com/feedbacksearch.aspx?productkey=msnbcsearch&P1=dsatmsnbc&P2=msnsearchblog&P4=AE -- Kelly Amsbry, Product Manager On behalf of the MSNSBC.com News team

As you may have heard, we have been working away on a question and answer service for Windows Live Search.  Yesterday a few pages for the beta signup were posted by accident so we decided to get the word out formally and open up the beta invite page at http://ideas.live.com today. You can get a lot more detail on the QnA team blog at http://spaces.msn.com/liveqna, but here is a quick summary of why we’re so excited about this service. This new Windows Live Search offering will help consumers simply find what they need, from a large community of helpful and knowledgeable people. This allows consumers to tap into the power of the online community by facilitating a melting pot of human knowledge that isn’t easily accessible or available on the Internet today.           Some key features include:  • Providing a place for people to ask any question, get credible answers and vote on the quality of the responses on any given topic from the Windows Live QnA community.  • People can rate answers and reputation-based scoring is available so you know which sources to follow. • Questions are tagged so others can easily find similar or related questions and answers. • Together we are creating a store of human knowledge containing facts, opinions and experiences on topics ranging from business, health, arts, sports, technology and more.   Ultimately, QnA will be deeply integrated with Windows Live Search, providing a rich, integrated searching service – enabling you to search and find answers on the Web, or from experts on any given topic as part of your search experience. Windows Live QnA beta is the latest example of our efforts to continue to redefine search to make it faster and more relevant for our consumers with live connections to information they want. We want to put the consumer in control of their search experience, customize it for their context, present search results in the most usable format, and empower users to make their own choices.   Also, in case you missed it last Friday, Microsoft is now syndicating Live Search results to A9.com and Alexa.  We are very excited to be chosen by A9 to provide this service for their innovative site. This agreement further validates the growth in importance of the Windows Live Search service across the Internet. As always we welcome your feedback and be sure to sign up for the beta! Ken MossGeneral Manager, Web Search

Betsynote: In advance of questions – Yes, this works stuff in Firefox. Yes, I want to go shopping. We are pleased to announce the beta release of Windows Live Product Search (http://products.live.com). Product search leverages the latest research from Microsoft Research Asia to find products available on the internet for sale.  At beta, the index contains commercial offers from over 100,000 sellers, which is made possible by integrating new algorithmic product classifiers and information extraction technology into the search system. Traditional shopping search sites enable search over data provided by select merchants.  Leveraging a wide range of information on the web enables indexing of hard-to-find and unique products and sellers available online.  Try searching for your favorite products or give the following team favorites a try: alien queen 1/4 scale, bhindi masala, or Andrew Jackson signed documents. The user interface stays true to the simplicity of the search paradigm and inherits many features common to the Windows Live search family such as smart scroll, image hovering, and level of detail slider.  In addition, users are able to refine their searches by: Related term, Brand, Seller and Price. There are still many features that that are not yet implemented in the initial Beta for Product Search.  These features include: product ratings & reviews, item clustering and a bigger selection. The product team is continually working on improving the quality of the site and would love to get your feedback: http://feedback.live.com/default.aspx?productkey=wlsearchproduct&P1 You can find more information about Product search and the Product search team on the Windows Live Product search Blog (http://spaces.msn.com/productsearch) -- Imran Aziz, Lead Program ManagerOn behalf of the Windows Live Product Search team.  

Shoutout from our team to Robert Scoble, who is onstage at Webmaster World Wednesday morning. He will be doing a keynote panel (Morning Coffee Session with The Super Bloggers Of Search (Robert Scoble, Jeremy Zawodny, Matt Cutts ), talking about the cool macros stuff Andy Edmonds showed him last week and of course, the launch of Academic Search. You go, Robert! --Betsy Aoki  4/19 Addendum - the crew wants to send another shoutout to our fearless leader, Director of Program Management Ramez Naam, who is participating in an afternoon  Webmaster World  Super Session described as "Search Engines and Webmasters: AKA, Search Engine SmackDown! Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Ask Jeeves." If he comes back with a new nickname like “the Body” or “The Mezzinator”….we’ll know why. :)

We are pleased to announce the beta release of Windows Live Academic Search (http://academic.live.com).  Academic search helps users to locate information in academic journal content, and allowing them to complete their research and information gathering work more efficiently. At beta, the index focuses on journal content from the subjects of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Physics – we will be expanding the index to additional subjects soon.   Key components of this release focus around enabling the user to have more control over their search experience which ideally leads to finding the information the right information faster.  Key features include: Preview Pane – Users can preview the full or partial abstract of the individual search results alongside additional metadata about the content.  This helps users determine relevance of the content.  Sort by – Provides users with additional ways to view and analyze their search results including sort by key metadata elements including – Author, Date of publication, Journal of publication etc. Citation – To aid users in taking the information they have found and easily incorporating into their research – we have added a citation export feature.  From the preview pane,  you can export the data into BibTEx or Endnote format and incorporate it into your bibliography by simply doing a cut & paste.   We are currently working to add Windows Live Search Macros support to Academic search – which will allow you to write your own macros (link to the macro entry on the MSN Search blog)  for academic search, and share it with the community.  You can find more information about Academic search and the Academic search team on the Windows Live Academic search Blog (http://spaces.msn.com/academicsearch)   --Thiru Anandanpillai, Product Planning -- Mike Buschman, Program Management On behalf of the Windows Live Academic Search team  -------------------------------------------- Note from Ken Moss, General Manager Web Search: "Just a quick update from the Web search team: we’ve turned the speller back on and after making some code adjustments are continuing to do long term reviews to help ensure an outage like last week won’t happen again. The details of what happened fall into an area we can’t discuss for proprietary reasons, so we can’t talk about it as much as we’d like, but wanted to let you know we are continuing to treat search availability and performance as a top goal. Thanks!”

Betsy Aoki's note: I am using this opportunity to horn in on a blog post with an intriguing subject line and announce my presence on the MSN Search blog. While it seems hard to fill  Brady Forrest's shoes (because I think he's at least a men's size 11 and I'm a women's size 8) , the search powers that be over here have asked me to take on the running of this  blog. This team blog stuff is different than working my own blog.  The folks I will be featuring here are the ones in the search  trenches and doing the really cool stuff.  And now back to your regularly scheduled Jamie Buckley. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------- On internet search engines, finding the calendar date for a holiday usually takes a few clicks.  With instant answers, we try to save you time by putting desired information right on the results page.  If you're planning a vacation or looking to stay out of the doghouse with gift buying foresight, type a holiday in MSN Search.  We’ll show current dates along with a short description at the top of the page.   Some examples: Thanksgiving                                                                                                       Mother’s Day Martin Luther King day  We'll be adding some more of these over time.  Please try them out and tell us what you think. Happy holidays, Jamie Buckley, PM Instant Answers Team  

First of all, we’d like to apologize for the lateness of this blog post. We know folks have been concerned about the recent outage of MSN Search, what that means for them and us, and what we are doing to address it. A lot of the team was engaged in technical matters yesterday and today is really the first chance we’ve had to catch our breath and talk more about it. Next time we will be more ready to blog and let you know what the word is. Second, we’d like to apologize for the outage itself. It’s not the kind of thing you expect from us, and it’s not frankly what we expected either. We are still troubleshooting the cause of the failure at this time, and to assist us in that we have disabled the speller function of Search. Once we are done, that functionality will be restored, but for now, we ask that you bear with us as we figure out what went awry. People are monitoring the servers minute-by-minute, working on this. We know it is important to you. People here feel like they’ve been punched in the stomach when the site goes down – it’s important to us too. Sometimes we find the answer quickly and sometimes it takes quite awhile to diagnose. Typically the length of time it takes to diagnose correlates to the severity of the outage. Say you are in a car accident – a rear-end collision at 10mph can turn into a 10-car pileup, and the folks at the end of the line have a hard time figuring out exactly why their car was affected. This one is taking us more time, and we wish it wasn’t . We will definitely keep you posted as things progress. Delighting our customers is our #1 job.  Yesterday we didn’t do our job.  Everyone here on the search team is dedicated to bringing you the best answer to your query – whenever you ask it.  We’re still new to the search business – and in many ways we’re still learning. Ken MossGeneral Manager Web Search

Ever wanted to create your own search engine?  Or use a search engine that’s tailored to the specific topic you’re interested in?  Last Friday we released a new Live Search feature called Search Macros that enables you to do this! What are Search Macros?Search Macros are a feature of Live Search that make results more relevant for a given search topic.  This is done by easily using, creating and sharing customized sets of search engine rules. Technically speaking, a Search Macros are custom, user-created groups of search operators built with the Live Search query language (see ‘Symbol reference’ and ‘Keyword reference’ in our help section). Macros are stored on our servers and are available to any user on live.com.  All macros can be used by anyone completely anonymously. How do I use them?There are two main ways to use macros:A. Try an existing macroB. Create and share your own I’ll cover both below: A. Try an existing macroLet’s say you’re looking for a macaroni and cheese recipe.  The top search results for ‘macaroni and cheese’ are from macaroni and cheese makers.  Good results, but not the recipes you’re looking for. Now let’s try the same query with a macro called livesearch.recipes.  This time the top results are all recipes—the macaroni and cheese maker pages are no longer there.  This is definitely content that is more relevant for my recipe search.   You can easily save this macro clicking on livesearch.recipes in the yellow “Click to install” box.   Your macro will be added to the search bar at the top of the page (we call this the scope bar).  You can now easily switch back and forth from it to Web, News and all of the other scopes.  If you look for recipes often, using a macro that returns great results for recipe searches is helpful…being able to put that macro your scope bar so it’s 1 click away is awesome! So far there are over 60 macros shared on MicrosoftGadgets.com. You can install any macro there by clicking on it and then on the +Live.com icon. B. Create your own macroTo create a macro click “Create Macros” in the dropdown menu on the far right side of the scope bar.  (You’ll need to be signed in with your Passport.  You‘ll automatically be asked to sign in if you aren’t already.) 1. Pick a namespaceThe first time you create a macro you will see the namespace creation screen.  You only get one macro namespace and it will be tied to your Passport.  Your namespace will be in the name of all macros you create.  For example, “livesearch” is the namespace and “recipes” is the name of the macro.  Pick your namespace carefully as we don’t plan on allowing you to change it!  It’s also important to note that we do not associate macro searches with your Passport. 2. Make a macroNext is the macro creation screen. Macros have several components: a name, the default scope (Web results vs. News results), a description and a definition.  The definition is where you define the advanced operators for your macro. For example, livesearch.recipes that we’ve been talking about has the following definition:  (-site:toeatgoodfood.com -linkdomain:googlesyndication.com intitle:recipe prefer:cup prefer:serve prefer:cook prefer:food prefer:menu prefer:cookbook prefer:site:www.epicurious.com prefer:site:www.recipesource.com prefer:site:allrecipes.com prefer:site:www.foodtv.com prefer:site:www.recipesource.com) It uses the following operators to find good recipe sites: site: restrict results to a single domainprefer: reorder the results preferring this termlinkdomain: finds results that link to a page on a domain"-" exclude pages that meet this criteria The Search Macros team will posting more in the near future. In the meantime, feel free to give macros a try, claim your namespace and let us know what you think… Zachary GuttProgram ManagerWindows Live Search Macros  

We have released the Windows Live Toolbar beta which adds some really cool technology from Onfolio, a company we just acquired. Onfolio grabs scraps of web pages to be shared or viewed later, which is my favorite part. Also, it allows you to collect and read feed collections via a great reader that is integrated into IE so you can read all your feeds in one place. This is a great tool to help organize information that you find on the web. In addition, the beta integrates with the great new services such as Windows Live Search, Windows Live Local, Windows Live Favorites and Live.com with automatic RSS detection and aggregation. You can also add, arrange and display the buttons as you want. On top of all this is integration, Windows Desktop Search continues to brings you the rich ability to find items on your own computer, but now you can include them in the collections of information you have. The entire Toolbar and Onfolio teams have worked hard to bring you this beta and we hope that you will take the time to try it out and tell us about it, good and bad!! Chris Butler Lead Program Manager, IS Client

We’ve  launched new features designed to put the user in control, while making search tasks easier and more natural Live Search. There are a host of subtle changes that we hope just make the experience a bit more pleasant, like better description text and improved typography to make quickly scanning results easier. We’ve also tidied up the look of the page from the last version because, well, we look at this page every day, too.Here’s some of the new functionality that we hope makes working with results easier: The scope bar that appears after you query provides a natural way to refine the type of information you want about the topic you’ve entered. The level of detail slider is a first step to letting you determine how much information to show on the page. You’ll find, if you slide the peg all the way to the right, the ability to search within a site. With a click, you can do a quick search for something more specific within a given site. Smart Scrolling  takes advantage of Ajax to move results fluidly within the page; no more reloading an entire page to get to the next 10 results.  We’ve also built an on-the-fly feed reader (in Feeds, click the preview icon next to the feed title) that you can use to preview feeds before subscribing to them (one click adds them to your live.com homepage).We know that this is just a start and we look forward to improving the search experience based on what our users need to quickly and easily find the answers they are looking for.Laura BaldwinGPM MSN Search

    This week the MSN Search, Live.com, MSN Spaces, IE and many other Microsoft teams will be attending ETech in San Diego. We're proud to be a sponsor of this geek mecca.If you are attending be sure to stop by the booth to see our latest software, meet us, or just to say "Hi". You can also see us talk at the following times:Simple Bridge-building Ray Ozzie Time: Tuesday 8:40AM - 9:10AM Location: Elizabeth Ballroom ABCD Search and the Network Effect Christopher Payne , Frederick Savoye Time: Wednesday 11:15AM - 11:30AM Location: Elizabeth Ballroom ABCD Remixing the Web with the Windows Live™Platform Track: Products & Services Kris Barton , Paul Steckler, Brady ForrestTime: Wednesday 1:45PM - 2:30PM Location: Elizabeth F Feeds as a Platform: More Data, Less WorkNiall Kennedy, Jane Kim (of IE7) & othersDate: Wednesday, March 08Time: Wednesday 1:45pm - 2:30pmLocation: Elizabeth Ballroom Bsee you there!    brady

Customer Focused … Humble … Under Promise/Over Deliver … These are some of the key cultural traits the Web Search team here at Microsoft tries to live by.  Boy, were we surprised to wake up yesterday to a bunch of press saying things like “Microsoft:  Give us Six Months to Beat Google” and “Microsoft: We’ll Beat Google at Its Own Game”.  What’s up with those headlines?  They were crafted from an interview with Neil Holloway; he clarifies his position on John Batelle’s SearchBlog. We on the Search Team also want to clarify our position: We believe that search is in its infancy.  We believe there is massive opportunity to improve every aspect of the search experience including:  basic web relevancy, new types of media, refining and interacting with your results, leveraging search server infrastructure to provide new services that were never before imagined, and so much more.  We are committed to building the world’s best search engine which helps you get your answers as quickly as possible – and we are excited to spend many years continuing to innovate on our customer’s behalf. When you talk about basic web relevancy, our customers report that we’ve made some great progress over the past year, and I know that our research and engineering pipeline is overflowing with intriguing ideas that we will test and release as they’re ready.  Certainly newer areas of search like desktop search and mapping are areas in which many reviewers and bloggers believe we have some best-in-class features.  Next week Christopher Payne, VP of Search, will be in San Diego at ETech showing some intriguing improvements to our service, we hope these continue the trend. That said, we won’t try to predict the progress of our competitors and so we won't forecast when we might take the lead, but this is a long term game and we are committed to helping drive the next wave of innovation in search for our customers.   Ken MossGeneral Manager Web Search

The Virtual Earth team is pleased to launch a preview of a new feature we have been working on – interactive Street-side browsing. You can try it out at http://preview.local.live.com Street-side imagery allows you to drive around a city looking at the world around you as if you were in a car. But unlike the real world, you can stop your car anywhere you like and rotate your view around 360degrees. Currently we have street-side imagery for San Francisco and Seattle online, and we are planning to have many more cities added when we formally integrate this feature into Windows Live Local this summer. One of the most interesting features is to put you in ‘Street’ view map style. In this mode, all of the street-side images are pasted flat on the map to give you a very unique overview of an area. It takes some getting used to, but once you adjust to it you’ll find it provides a very compelling companion view for our Hybrid maps. Street view helps you orient yourself quickly in an area, while the street side views then show more detail presented as you would see it in the real-world. This technology preview is just that – a means for us to get a feature we are working on in your hands to play with and provide feedback on, before it is ready for prime time integration into the Windows Live Local site. That’s why we chose to put this up in the Live local technology preview site. There are a number of User Interface challenges with any new navigation model and getting input from users is critical to refining the UI interactions before launch. The Virtual Earth team is proud to be the first application featured at Live Labs, allowing us to get this proof of concept out quickly – We went from concept to launch in just a few short weeks, thanks largely to the dedication of our engineering team and cooperation with the Live Labs organization. Live Labs is a partnership between MSN and Microsoft Research headed by Gary Flake whose mission is to help fast-track technology from research to user’s hands, so it was a natural fit to partner with them to get this inaugural application out Via Live Labs. Try the application out and let us know what you think. How could navigation be improved? What cities would you like to have added? Is it easy to stay oriented or do you ‘get lost’ in the imagery? How could Navigation be improved? “From Concept to launch in a few short weeks”. As crazy as that sounds, its true. Jay Nanduri , Brad Snow, Chandu Thota, Eyal Ofek, Rick Welsh and myself, along with immeasurable support from the rest of the Virtual Earth team and our Ops crew put in some late night dev sessions to get this out. Channel 9 came over to talk to us about the process and application, so be sure to watch the video to get the word firsthand. Sean RoweProgram Manager, Virtual Earth  Update: There are some tips and screenshots over on the VE blog. More coming soon!

We noticed that a lot of you are looking for movies currently in theaters.  To help get you the info you want faster, we recently launched an instant answer for movie showtimes!We worked with our buddies in MSN Movies to bring you current showtimes for movies near you.  You can search for movie names or the theater down the way:Movies: eight below, curious george Theaters: landmark metro cinemas seattle, amc fenway 13 boston You can also find movies by genre, rating and other movie related words.  Some examples:loews action movies, movies omaha ne, children movies, imax movies new york, PG movies Check it out and let us know what you think.  We’re listening.Enjoy the show,Jamie Buckley and the Instant Answers Team

This past December we quietly made a change to the way people search on Microsoft.com –  Microsoft.com Search is now powered by MSN Search.  This was an exciting project to work on.  We were super jazzed that another team wanted to use our search technology and the Microsoft.com team was equally excited to be upgrading their search to the best Internet Search technology that Microsoft has to offer.  Not only that, but this was not just any team, but rather search for Microsoft.com which is one of top 10 sites on the Internet. The exact position within the top 10 depends on whose numbers you trust most :)   The result we think is a far improved search of Microsoft.com content – the satisfaction levels of Microsoft.com search are up and the number of people using search.microsoft.com also increased.  The true judge, however, of whether we are delivering good results is you. So, stop by search.microsoft.com, try out your favorite queries and send us some feedback.    And to boot we shipped this in 58 markets and 31 languages!   Eytan Seidman Lead Program Manager -- MSN Search

Earlier this week we launched MSN Search and Win. It’s a contest that will be running through April and you have the opportunity to win some pretty great prizes. I like it because it’s easy. As you search on our main site (or through the flash interface) you have the ability to win prizes. If you’re not interested in the prizes then you can ignore the ads.Why are we doing it? Well there certainly are a number of people who have pondered our motives, but when it comes down to it we have made a lot of improvements over the past year with our algo so people should notice a difference in relevance and a marketing campaign like MSN Search and Win is a good way to encourage people to try us again so they can see the improvements for themselves. Since you’ve all been doing extra searches on our site due to the contest I am sure that you’ve seen the new UI on MSN Search that we rolled out yesterday afternoon. We’ve traded in the blue for a steely grey. Other changes include a longer search box and hit highlighting in the title.  On the first, we’ve listened to your feedback and on the second, trust us, it makes your job as a searcher easier. Thanks for the feedback and keep it coming. Personally, I like the change, but I’ll continue to search from live.com – I can’t do without my Seattle Traffic Map.   Brady Forrest, MSN Search PM  

When you look at all the data about all the Olympics, as we did to add 350,000 facts about the Olympics to MSN Search, there are plenty of surprises.Sports you never heard of, countries that don't exist, and an intricacy that defies easy understanding are all waiting for the Olympics data explorer. Architecture, town planning, painting, music, and sculpture all had Olympic medals once upon a time. The U.S. won these art competitions only once: art competitions Olympic medals United States. At one time, tug-of-war was an Olympic sport: tug-of-war 1904 gold medal. Some big competitors of the past have fallen completely off the map: Soviet Union Olympic medals, Unified Team Olympic medals. Once you're past the unusual events and superannuated placenames there's the real wonder of it: the thousands of competitors in hundreds of events over 45 Olympiads. Here are some categories of answers we provide:Medal totals, by country:United States Winter Olympics medalsCanadian medals women's biathlonMedalists by sport:biathlon 2002 gold medalgold medal winner ice hockey 2002Medalists in specific events:gold medal women's super-G 1998 Winter Olympicswho won women's figure skating 2002 OlympicsOlympic records: Olympic record women's 1,000 meter speed skatingIndividual records:how many gold medals won by Apolo Anton OhnoBode Miller Olympic medals Selected athlete biographies and details: Michelle Kwan bio Michelle Kwan home townhow tall is Michelle Kwan --Mark Stumpf, Steve Heller, Instant Answer Team

We like shipping. We work hard to ship good products. In fact, we’re probably working hard right now, as you are reading this, towards shipping something we hope is exceptional. But sometimes we need a break. Hugh Williams, a Search dev lead, took a break in January. After moving across the Pacific Ocean, building a team, and doing a heck of a lot of other great stuff, he flew back to Australia to do whatever people do on vacation (or “holiday” as Hugh calls it). But we decided we owed him something for leaving Seattle to enjoy summer in the southern hemisphere. So we built him a bit of a surprise for his return. We put together a short film to document some of the fun we had during the project. We hope you have as much fun watching as we did building and filming! And needless to say, if for some bizarre reason this video makes you want to work with us, we are always looking for great people! If you send us prank ideas for future travelers then you might be seeing another video in the next few months!Scott Blomquist & Julie FaragoSearch Team dev & PM