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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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Avatar Went Hot: February 1, 2008 - 6:07 am
Posted By: dannysullivan 155 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft
Microsoft is aiming to buy Yahoo. Seriously. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 4, 2007 - 11:01 am
Posted By: chriswinfield 275 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Microsoft, which runs Live Search and is the parent company of aQuantive, which owns Avenue A Razorfish, is now partnering with another search marketing firm, The Search Agency, to offer SEO and Paid Search Marketing services to small businesses. I read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 10, 2007 - 3:31 am
Posted By: SimonHeseltine 240 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.rba.co.uk)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Karen Blakeman lets everyone know that the link: and linkdomain: commands work again on MSN / Live, all you have to do is prefix the command with a + sign to get it to work. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 17, 2008 - 9:59 am
Posted By: Gab 113 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
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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Avatar Went Hot: May 5, 2008 - 9:15 am
Posted By: aimClear 62 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
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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Avatar Went Hot: April 15, 2008 - 5:55 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 84 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
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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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 9:34 am
Posted By: planetc1 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Microsoft
Jane Copland writes... This morning, I was talking to Rob Kerry about some particularly competitive search phrases and looking around in the SERPs. We'd gone through most of the usual suspects when [cheap flights] came up. Google duly returned its t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 7, 2008 - 2:57 pm
Posted By: SpostareDuro 61 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
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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Avatar Went Hot: December 21, 2007 - 10:13 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 198 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoroi.com)
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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Avatar Went Hot: November 7, 2007 - 11:52 am
Posted By: chriswinfield 241 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
From Barry: "It is currently in a private beta, so I am not even sure if I can blog this, but I read all the privacy pages, and most are returning not found errors, so I am going to post these screen captures for you." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 27, 2008 - 1:55 am
Posted By: BusinessHut 102 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.businesshut.com)
Category: Microsoft
Comparing Microsoft's Web Analytics service "Gatineau" against Google Analytics. Who will come out on top??? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 30, 2008 - 10:17 am
Posted By: mpilatow 100 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
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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Avatar Went Hot: November 30, 2007 - 9:03 am
Posted By: toddmintz 219 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pdxtc.com)
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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Avatar Went Hot: December 19, 2007 - 1:43 am
Posted By: planetc1 200 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://raven-seo-tools.com)
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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Avatar Went Hot: November 16, 2007 - 3:52 pm
Posted By: Sebastian 232 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
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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Avatar Went Hot: February 13, 2008 - 9:18 am
Posted By: Sebastian 144 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
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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Avatar Went Hot: December 12, 2007 - 1:15 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 207 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
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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Avatar Went Hot: February 10, 2008 - 8:33 am
Posted By: vangogh 149 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
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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Avatar Went Hot: November 13, 2007 - 4:48 pm
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 235 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://ekstreme.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
Ok, here's even more evidence of MS spamming us. What will it take to make it stop??? read more »
13 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 5, 2007 - 2:41 pm
Posted By: Sebastian 213 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
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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Avatar Went Hot: December 22, 2007 - 1:46 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 197 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
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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Avatar Went Hot: November 15, 2007 - 4:25 pm
Posted By: randfish 233 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
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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Avatar Went Hot: December 4, 2007 - 7:26 pm
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 214 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
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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Avatar Went Hot: November 14, 2007 - 1:46 am
Posted By: eKstreme 235 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
So it looks like now in addition to screwing with our traffic reporting, MSN could potentially be damaging our AdSense earnings. read more »
13 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 25, 2008 - 11:57 am
Posted By: annie7 102 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://anzman.blogspot.com)
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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