Microsoft > Microsoft: Live Search
May. 6, 2008 at 10:57am by Barry Schwartz
Live Search's New Design Goes Live
After weeks of Microsoft testing a new home page design for Live.com, the new design seems to be live now. When I visit Live.com, I see:...
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May. 5, 2008 at 2:35pm by Greg Sterling
Facebook Search Box Is Low-Hanging Fruit For Microsoft
Now that the Microsoft play for Yahoo appears to be over (appears to be), everyone and their grandparents are speculating about what Microsoft and Yahoo are going to do now. One quick thing that Microsoft could do to increase its potential reach in search is encourage Facebook to put a...
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May. 2, 2008 at 10:14am by Danny Sullivan
Indiana Jones Search: Indy Meets Microsoft Live Search
For over a year, Microsoft has been experimenting with games to help build its search marketshare. Yesterday, I learned of one that certainly caught my eye: Indiana Jones Search....
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May. 2, 2008 at 8:43am by Barry Schwartz
Microsoft Releases "Renaissance" Version Of Live Search QnA
The Live Search QnA Blog announced a new release of Live Search QnA. Live Search QnA is Microsoft's question and answer engine, similar to Yahoo Answers. This new release was coined the "Renaissance release," and includes the following enhancements:...
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May. 1, 2008 at 6:31am by Danny Sullivan
Live Twittering The UK's Microsoft Live Search Executive Symposium
I'm in London today for Live Search's Executive Symposium, designed to educate key thought leaders, company executives, and others about what Microsoft is doing in search and what's happing in search generally. I've twittered the morning sessions, which were interesting and full of stats. Below, the raw twitters. If time...
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Apr. 30, 2008 at 2:05pm by Barry Schwartz
Microsoft Live Search Adds More Images, Multimap, Find My Location, & Celebrity Rank
Live Search has informed us that they have made a few enhancements to the search engine. The enhancements include an expanded image search index, a new integrated mapping experience with Multimap, a location-based mobile search feature to "find me," and more content for the celebrities and books sections. Here are...
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Apr. 28, 2008 at 6:46am by Danny Sullivan
Microsoft Paper: Improving Search Results By Mining Web Surfing Activity
A new research paper from Microsoft looks at how surfing behavior -- as logged by a search toolbar -- can be used to improve search results....
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Apr. 17, 2008 at 7:57pm by Greg Sterling
Microsoft Buys Travel Search Site Farecast
Travel search site Farecast was rumored to be a takeover target recently and the CEO has confirmed that the site has indeed been acquired by Microsoft. TechCrunch, citing John Cook at the Seattle PI, says the deal was worth something in the $100-$115 million range....
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Apr. 7, 2008 at 7:09am by Greg Sterling
iProspect: Blended Search Resulting In More Clicks On News, Images, And Video
Since the advent of "blended" or "universal search" last year across the major engines, there's been ongoing discussion and speculation about its impact on user behavior and search marketing. Gord Hotchkiss last year wrote extensively about how blended search (on Google) has in fact shifted the user focus from the...
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Feb. 11, 2008 at 10:13am by Danny Sullivan
Google: We Didn't Censor Aboutrika's Gaza T-Shirt Photo
Google's Matt Cutts has lent his personal blog to the Google Images search team so they could debunk a rumor that Google censored an image of an Egyptian football player, Mohammad Aboutrika, stripping off his team jersey during the African Cup Of Nations to show a "Sympathize With Gaza" T-shirt...
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Feb. 8, 2008 at 9:12pm by Vanessa Fox
Live Search: There For Skiers And Snowboarders Everywhere
Live Search has just added Instant Answers for snow conditions at ski resorts. Type a query for a resort name (such as "whistler") or for a resort area (such as "CO snow report") and you'll see information such as lift status, amount of new snow, base depth, and conditions....
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Feb. 7, 2008 at 5:46pm by Vanessa Fox
Microsoft Live Search Core Relevance Program Management Director Eytan Seidman Moves On
Eytan Seidman, Program Management Director over core relevance for Microsoft Live Search, is leaving Microsoft (and Seattle) after six and a half years and heading to New York to work on a start up with his brother. I talked to him about life at Microsoft, the birth of Live Search,...
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Jan. 24, 2008 at 10:30am by Greg Sterling
Politically Tinged Promotion For Live Search
Microsoft has launched another would-be viral online campaign for Live Search that conceptually mimics the earlier Ms. Dewey campaign but is politically themed for the election year. The site is called Left vs. Right and (probably) takes its inspiration from the old Saturday Night Live skit point/counterpoint, featuring Dan Ackroyd...
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Dec. 19, 2007 at 9:43am by Barry Schwartz
Microsoft Live Search Indexing & Listing Google AdWords Ads
Raven SEO Blog spotted Microsoft's Live Search indexing Google AdWords ads. The example given was a search on colorations paint, which returned Google AdWords ads in the 3rd and 4th position. Here is a screen capture showing one of those listings:...
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Dec. 3, 2007 at 9:35am by Barry Schwartz
Microsoft Does Sitelinks On Live Search
The SEOCO blog reports that a search at Live.com now may return extra links under the first results. This is known as Sitelinks over at Google. For example, a search on dmoz at Live Search returns this:...
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Nov. 27, 2007 at 9:11am by Danny Sullivan
Search 3.0: The Blended & Vertical Search Revolution
This has been a remarkable year. After years of no real dramatic evolution in search, the third generation finally arrived. Google calls it Universal Search, and I've been tending to say "blended search" as a generic name for the change that's now hit all the major search engines. But in...
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Nov. 16, 2007 at 9:48am by Greg Sterling
Microsoft Seeks 30 Percent Of Search Market And Much Bigger Chunk Of Online Ad Revenues
Reuters reports on a speech given at an investor conference by Microsoft's Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft's platforms and services division. In the speech Johnson reportedly said that Microsoft wants to capture 30 percent of the consumer search market as well as a much larger slice of the online ad...
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Nov. 13, 2007 at 8:38am by Barry Schwartz
Live Search's Link Command Now Working
Karen Blakeman reported that you can now search use link command searches at Live Search again. Microsoft first pulled back the link command in March of this year, due to trouble with automated queries. But as Karen reported, it seems to be back with a new prefix. Just add a...
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Nov. 9, 2007 at 8:54am by Barry Schwartz
Microsoft Tries Search & Win Again?
Is Live Search bringing back the search and win "Live Search Trial Program?" A Marketwatch article suggests so, even though the page is invalid. Microsoft did run this program back in August. In addition, it has also run the Live Search Club program....
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Nov. 8, 2007 at 8:38am by Barry Schwartz
Live Search Adds "More" Tab To Home Page, Exposes More Vertical Search Tools
Gary Price spotted that Microsoft has added a new "more" tab to the Live Search home page, exposing some Live Search specialized search engines that haven't been promoted from the home page since last month's relaunch of Live Search....
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Nov. 7, 2007 at 12:17pm by Greg Sterling
Windows Live Comes Out Of Beta, Adds Capabilities
Microsoft took the beta label off Windows Live Services, a mix of desktop and Web apps that are part of the company's "software + services" strategy to keep those promoting "cloud computing" at bay (e.g., Google). Reuters and eWeek have rundowns of the global launch, while Digital Inspiration complains about...
