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Topics related to using Live Search to search the web. For more background, see Microsoft web search news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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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'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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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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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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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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So it looks like now in addition to screwing with our traffic reporting, MSN could potentially be damaging our AdSense earnings. read more »
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We told you so! I can hear Microsoft saying that after they said last week that comScore's ratings what support what Compete was showing -- a big rise in search share. Yep, comScore also found it was due to the Live Search Club promotion. But despit read more »
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