Microsoft Launches Live Search News

By Barry Schwartz

Published: April 16, 2008 at 9:17 am

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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About the author

Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and 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.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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