There have been several important milestones in the creation of Search Technology Centre (STC) Europe. Europe is an important market for Search and one we’ve been focusing on a lot recently. Live Searcg blog outlines some of the more significant reasons why, counting down to number one: “Live Search in U.S. has improved over past few releases ; Europe is a big Search market, around $8B ; STC Asia was established and is making good progress ; Strong Internet reach through network across MSN, Windows Live, MultiMap, and Ciao in most European Markets (upwards of 80%) ; representing a big opportunity to increase traffic to Live Search ; ‘10 blue link’ Search paradigm hasn’t changed that much over the last 10 years”

More info: Live Search blog