Microsoft Launches Live Search News

Microsoft hits back at Google with Live Search News from News.com reports Microsoft has launched Live Search News. Live Search News takes a more linear view of news compared to the Yahoo News home pages. Live Search News looks more like a Techmeme style news approach, but it obviously uses a different algorithm. Here is […]

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Microsoft hits back at Google with Live Search News from News.com reports Microsoft has launched Live Search News.

Live Search News takes a more linear view of news compared to the Yahoo News home pages. Live Search News looks more like a Techmeme style news approach, but it obviously uses a different algorithm. Here is a quick Flickr video of the Live Search News layout and pages:


One major feature I see that is missing is RSS subscriptions. It appears there is no way to subscribe to the home page of Live Search News, news sections or, more importantly, news searches.


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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