blogs.msdn.com - 2/4/2009
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IE8 users can now get Live Search instant answers, including financial information, weather conditions, movie show times, calculations, equations, conversions, and definitions directly in the IE8 search box. To see the stock quote answer in action, type MSFT in the search box; you’ll ...
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Live Search Instant Answers in IE8 search box
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews —
... , and now, in IE8 in the US (using Live Search in the search box), Instant Answers! From a blog post on the Live Search blog: ...
IE8 search box gets Live Search Instant Answers
D' Technology Weblog —
... information, weather conditions, movie show times, calculations, equations, conversions, and definitions directly in the IE8 search box. To see the stock quote answer in action, type MSFT in the search box;you’ll get the current stock information, plus the performance graph supplied by Comstock. Type weather in the search box and you’ll get the weather icon, current temp, as well as the predicted high and low temps from Foreca, announced Live Search Blog. ...
Live Search Answers Google
Microsoft Watch —
... weathersd.png I hadn't paid much attention to Instant Answers until yesterday, after reading a post on Microsoft's Live Search blog about the service coming to Internet Explorer 8. As Live Search senior development lead Alfred Liu and Beatrice Oltean, program manager, explain: "Instant Answers are available by default with IE 8 when you're using Live Search in the U.S." Sure enough, typing "weather" into the IE 8 search box pops up several suggestions and the local forecast (See screen capture, right). Instant Answers suggests links for Washington, D.C. and San Diego ...
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