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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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Avatar Went Hot: May 7, 2008 - 2:57 pm
Posted By: SpostareDuro 158 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 22, 2007 - 1:46 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 294 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 330 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: November 14, 2007 - 1:46 am
Posted By: eKstreme 332 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 »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 25, 2008 - 11:57 am
Posted By: annie7 199 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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Avatar Went Hot: December 5, 2007 - 2:40 pm
Posted By: Eavesy 312 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoco.co.uk)
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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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 452 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
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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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 130 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.yahoo.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
In a bid to boost its Web search traffic, Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced a deal that will make its Live Search the default on Hewlett-Packard Co. personal computers ... the largest PC maker in the world.

Interesting! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: swags2804 156 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.news.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Bill Gates announces updates to Live Search but won't go into specifics. Question is: will this be enough to finally make us care? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: CaseStevens 314 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.joostdevalk.nl)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Easy solution to finally see backward links in Live Search again. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogs.msdn.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Looks like Microsoft has openly acknowledged Wikipedia favoritism...

"We realize that often you just need to get a sense of what your query is about. Wikipedia is great for that — you can learn enough from the first paragraph of a Wikipedia artic read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Danny Sullivan gives us a summary of the new Internet Explorer 8. How will it deal with Microsoft's bias towards MSN Live and what of the new InPrivate feature, rumoured to block third-party advertising? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ciaran 150 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Don't let the Jobs fanatics tell you different - MSN actually make some pretty good ads (and let's be honest, who doesn't want to punch the smug idiot playing Mac?) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
SNIP - Should you avoid the program because of the tracking? Well, that’s a personal decision. Google already has plenty of people who voluntarily allow themselves to be tracked in greater depth in return for getting personalized search results and read more »
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Avatar Posted By: KDye 147 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vertical-leap.co.uk)
Category: Microsoft Searching
How to see what sites come up for searches in different countries and in different languages on the new facelifted live search. Can be useful from an SEO point of view if you think you have a site that is geotargeted to the wrong region. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: steaprok 312 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Just been searching MSN this morning and I have noticed that they are now displaying extra links for certain sites when you search for them by name - very similar to Google’s site link feature. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: nbuggia 276 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://raven-seo-tools.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Jon Henshaw talking about my 4 favorite features of microsoft's Live Search. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Chris1 77 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Danny Sullivan:

"Sigh. Reading Stephen Ballmer's latest "rally the troops" memo over yet another Microsoft reorganization, I just want to scream at the man and the company in general that they'll never win at search if they don't get it through t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 170 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.seoptimise.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
One commenter put it quite well after the announcement:
Wasn’t the process you went through more like this?
1/ We looked at what Google were doing
2/ We copied it read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 158 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Greg Sterling revisits his Oct 2007 post with today's "SEL-suggestion" for Microsoft. "10/24/07 SEL: A Live Search box & related ad inventory is almost sure to make its appearance on Facebook in the near term," blending true search and social media. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Bill Slawski - Some sets of search results do include news, images, maps, and other results that go beyond just a list of web pages that may contain the keywords used in a search.

But, how interested would you be in entering the address of a web read more »
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Avatar Posted By: anthonyverre 77 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://themilwaukeeseo.blogspot.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Once again, Microsoft is a “Johnny-come-lately” in the area of web innovation. And, this effort, while valiant, is doomed to fail as all the rest of the MS search endeavors have. And, we know that if Yahoo ever builds a webpage relevance toolbar, it read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WebGuerrilla 380 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.oilman.ca)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Todd's got a great recap of Searchification and a url for you to check out at the bottom. This new MSN kicks ass, wait til you guys see the video features.

Private beta launches Monday. Bigger private beta on 10/22 and public beta on 11/15 lau read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 142 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
I've got no problem if Microsoft wants to "bribe" searchers to use its search engine. Even Google has done the same. But the Live Search Cashback program rolled out today seems a pretty inept way to do it, far more likely to disappoint and frustrate read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jonhenshaw 295 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogs.msdn.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Nathan Buggia, Lead Program Manager at Live Search, contacted me to let me know they've fixed the problem. Here's what happened, in their own words. read more »
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