Nathan Weinberg from InsideMicrosoft discoverd a new site from the Windows Live team:

The most interesting one is this one, testmash.com/experts.aspx?q=photography, which shows a new Spaces tab in the Windows Live search engine, and features experts in the sidebar that you can send instant messages about the subject you are searching about. It appears that Microsoft is interested in rating experts in certain topics, probably both through their Spaces blog and QnA actions, rating them and placing them in some search results, so that if you want more info on a topic, you can IM the expert instead of wading through search results. Hopefully, Microsoft would pay these experts, or the experts would have means of making something for their service.

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