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As a company, Microsoft is decades-old. But its Windows Live Search search engine is the youngest of any of the majors. Generally speaking, Microsoft comes behind Google and Yahoo in terms of usage. But number three still makes it a very important search engine. For more background, see Microsoft news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Tomorrow's Search
Avatar Went Hot: May 7, 2008 - 2:57 pm
Posted By: SpostareDuro 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com) my network
Category: Microsoft Searching
What will the search interfaces of tomorrow look like? How might we be presented with information that we are interested in differently than we are today, and how might that information be delivered to us in manners that we find helpful? read more »
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Microsoft Yanks Its Offer For Yahoo
Avatar Went Hot: May 6, 2008 - 2:36 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com) my network
Category: Microsoft
SEL - It's not entirely clear if this marks the end of the whole episode but it certainly appears to (at least on the surface.) A skeptic might see this as a power play to deflate Yahoo's stock and then come back with a tender offer or another try t read more »
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Leaving Las Yahoo: Microsoft's $5 Billion Mistake?
Avatar Went Hot: May 5, 2008 - 9:15 am
Posted By: aimClear 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com) my network
Category: Microsoft Other
(Danny Sullivan post) If Microsoft's Yahoo walkaway is a ploy to save $5 billion, CEO Steve Ballmer may have proven himself pennywise & pound foolish. He was prepared to spend billions to make Microsoft a serious Google rival but may have destroyed read more »
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I am Pleading With You Microsoft: PLEASE Make Live Search Better
Avatar Went Hot: April 15, 2008 - 5:55 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 32 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com) my network
Category: Microsoft Other
Live Search and AdCenter have reached a truly depressing state. With this in mind, I am pleading with them. Please, get better. There are basic and obvious problems. None of them too hard to fix. This is just getting depressing. read more »
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Microsoft adCenter - Where's The Revenue?
Avatar Went Hot: March 30, 2008 - 10:17 am
Posted By: mpilatow 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com) my network
Category: Microsoft adCenter
So Microsoft adCenter is the only one of the 3 major paid search platforms that does NOT report on revenue read more »
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Microsoft Gatineau - Google Analytics Killer?
Avatar Went Hot: March 27, 2008 - 1:55 am
Posted By: BusinessHut 50 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.businesshut.com) my network
Category: Microsoft
Comparing Microsoft's Web Analytics service "Gatineau" against Google Analytics. Who will come out on top??? read more »
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MSN and Live.com embedding videos in search results
Avatar Went Hot: March 25, 2008 - 11:57 am
Posted By: annie7 51 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://anzman.blogspot.com) my network
Category: Microsoft Searching
Microsoft's Live.com search has been seen embedding videos in their main index search results. The videos appear at the top of the page (unlike Google's universal search, which still, in most cases, is putting them lower on page 1 or 2 for many sear read more »
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Is MSN Lying About Their Referrer Spam?
Avatar Went Hot: March 17, 2008 - 9:59 am
Posted By: Gab 61 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com) my network
Category: Microsoft SEO
Months ago, MSN changed bots to detect cloaking. Result?
"Every single domain I had is still in Yahoo or MSN. That is not a good sign for them. Some of these are way older than a cloaked domain should be." - XMCP read more »
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MSNbot/1.0 is defunct - Long live MSNbot/1.1 that saves you bandwidth costs
Avatar Went Hot: February 13, 2008 - 9:18 am
Posted By: Sebastian 92 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com) my network
Category: Microsoft SEO
Microsoft Live Search upgrades their crawler today. From now on msnbot/1.1 supports conditional GET requests and HTTP compression. That's a very much appreciated move. I've chatted with Nathan Buggia from Live Search who was kind enough to provide m read more »
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Microsoft on Reranking Search Results Based Upon Your Calendar
Avatar Went Hot: February 10, 2008 - 8:33 am
Posted By: vangogh 97 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com) my network
Category: Microsoft
Imagine a search engine changing around the results that you see, not based upon the time that a page is published, but rather on some estimate of the importance of a page to you, and how that importance might vary with time and your personal calend read more »
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Microsoft Makes $45 Billion Bid To Buy Yahoo
Avatar Went Hot: February 1, 2008 - 6:07 am
Posted By: dannysullivan 104 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com) my network
Category: Microsoft
Microsoft is aiming to buy Yahoo. Seriously. read more »
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Yahoo! & Microsoft Still do Not Understand Marketing
Avatar Went Hot: January 15, 2008 - 11:56 am
Posted By: martinbowling 122 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com) my network
Category: Microsoft adCenter
Aaron looks at Microsoft's efforts in the Contextual Marketing arena. Great tools; but broken ads :( read more »
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Bill "Big" Brother Gates and Co. Want to Watch You!
Avatar Went Hot: January 10, 2008 - 7:14 pm
Posted By: SearchBuzz 126 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com) my network
Category: Microsoft

If Bill Gates has his way, credit card use, grocery discount membership cards, cell phone usage, interaction with digital television systems, and more, might be used by Microsoft to target advertising to you online, and influence the search result read more »
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Getting Into MSN Live Should Not Be This Hard
Avatar Went Hot: December 22, 2007 - 1:46 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 145 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com) my network
Category: Microsoft Searching
Scott Hendison laments the fact that he can't get a 3 year old site in MSN despite performing all the requisite actions including creating a proper XML sitemap and using the Microsoft Webmaster Tools. read more »
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5 Things MSN Must Do To Gain Search Share
Avatar Went Hot: December 21, 2007 - 10:13 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 146 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoroi.com) my network
Category: Microsoft
Gab has a really interesting post about 5 things that MSN must do to gain marketshare on Google. I'm sure there are many others who feel the same ... Google is gradually going to take control of the net, and MSN is the best chance for keeping them h read more »
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Live Search Returning Google AdWords in Natural Search Results
Avatar Went Hot: December 19, 2007 - 1:43 am
Posted By: planetc1 148 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://raven-seo-tools.com) my network
Category: Microsoft
Live Search is offering a new way for AdWords customers to get click-throughs — their own natural SERPs. They appear to be indexing AdWords ads from Google's own SERPs. Doing a search on Live for colorations paint (at the time of this writing) will read more »
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MSN Introducing Display and Text Ads to MSN Mobile in U.S.
Avatar Went Hot: December 12, 2007 - 1:15 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 156 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com) my network
Category: Microsoft
Microsoft has announced the introduction of mobile display and text advertising on MSN Mobile in the U.S., starting today. Microsoft has previously offered mobile display advertising in Belgium, France, Japan, Spain and the U.K, but not in the U.S. read more »
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MSN dudes stick to spamming, officially making a fool of themselves
Avatar Went Hot: December 5, 2007 - 2:41 pm
Posted By: Sebastian 162 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com) my network
Category: Microsoft Other
Live Search will not dump their clueless and ineffective search quality project. They're proud to be the one and only bigger search engine that spams.

Even when they apologize to the Webmaster community, they're not able to tell the truth. They read more »
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MSN Showing Extra Links For Certain Sites
Avatar Went Hot: December 5, 2007 - 2:40 pm
Posted By: Eavesy 164 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoco.co.uk) my network
Category: Microsoft Searching
MSN have come up with a feature very similar to Google's site links, certain authority sites are now showing 5 extra sub-page links with their listings. read more »
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MSNBot Lies In Reverse DNS Test
Avatar Went Hot: December 5, 2007 - 12:34 pm
Posted By: rustybrick 162 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com) my network
Category: Microsoft SEO
They promised us a reverse DNS their IPs to search.live.com but they are not. So now we may be blocking their spiders from crawling us. read more »
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MSN/Live Ponies Up About The Referrer Spam
Avatar Went Hot: December 4, 2007 - 7:26 pm
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 162 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com) my network
Category: Microsoft
Live gives details about their cloaking bot, and I get a few extra questions answered about it. read more »
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MSN / Live Bot Does Not Follow 301 Redirects?
Avatar Went Hot: November 30, 2007 - 9:03 am
Posted By: toddmintz 167 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pdxtc.com) my network
Category: Microsoft SEO
Certainly news to me. Implications are pretty big because though MSN will likely find, spider & index the new site, the new site won't get any credit for the work done on the old site.

Scott Hendison asks why this is...I confess that I can't thi read more »
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Microsoft Starts Covering Their Ass On Rogue Bot Intrusions
Avatar Went Hot: November 23, 2007 - 4:34 am
Posted By: mvandemar 174 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com) my network
Category: Microsoft Other
It looks like Microsoft decided to re-think their strategy of hiding the ownership of the IP blocks that they are sending all of the massive referrer spam from. read more »
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Microsoft funding bankrupt Live Search experiment with porn spam
Avatar Went Hot: November 16, 2007 - 3:52 pm
Posted By: Sebastian 180 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com) my network
Category: Microsoft Other
Rumors are out that Microsoft will launch a porn affiliate programm soon. The top secret code name for this project is "pornbucks", but analysts say that it will be launched as "M$ SMUT CASH" next year or so. Live Search promotes it since August 200 read more »
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Eytan Seidman of MSN/Live Search on Dozens of Topics
Avatar Went Hot: November 15, 2007 - 4:25 pm
Posted By: randfish 182 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org) my network
Category: Microsoft Searching
I've been getting a hard time for never submitting anything to Sphinn, so here goes :)

My opinion is that the answers Eytan doesn't give here are nearly as interesting as the ones he does provide (which are fairly in depth). I particularly like: read more »
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