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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 Posted By: skydivedad 8 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://skydivedadpublishing.com)
Category: Microsoft
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and President, Entertainment & Devices Division Robbie Bach made quite a splash today at the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas. The announcement was actually three announcements rolled into one. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: c0r 21 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vnunet.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
Windows 7 Beta 1 is available immediately to subscribers of MSDN and TechNet, while everyone else will be able to download the software from the Windows 7 web site from January 9. The ISO image file is approximately 2.7GB in size. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: divinewrite 1 day 2 hours 40 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Microsoft
Microsoft Live Search now crawling JavaScript, apparently. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: spinfactor 1 day 15 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fierysource.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
The most visible change we saw was the task bar. Text descriptions on icons have disappeared, in favor of larger icons. The icons can now be rearranged in any order you set and will stay that way. With this version Microsoft dumped the sidebar, whic read more »
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Avatar Posted By: wesmcdermott 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.stonetemple.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Angus Norton is the Senior Director, Live Search, at Microsoft Corporation. Angus previously has had several other roles at Microsoft, including: Senior Director, Developer Platform Evangelism, Director, Windows Mobile, and Group Product Manager, En read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrentCsutoras 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Microsoft adCenter
MSN Content Ads is still very new and in very limited beta. I suspect it will do much better in 2009, but it appears they still have a long way to go to earn the trust of publishers and take market share from Google AdSense. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: youfoundjake 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://incredibill.blogspot.com)
Category: Microsoft
It looks like Microsoft has found a way to spider javascript links.. what can this mean on the impact of your website? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEO-Alchemist 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketappeal.co.uk)
Category: Microsoft adCenter
Nobody expects a beta tool to be perfect, but you might expect offshoots of MS adCenter Labs to at least work for their own examples. Sadly, however, that's not the case... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 31, 2008 - 8:47 pm
Posted By: Guavafruit 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft
A pretty amazing write up by Danny Sullivan covering what he believes is wrong with Microsoft Search and opportunities available to them. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: raghavanrp 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.thatsseo.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Details on Domain Score, Page Score and search rankings in Live Search Engine. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrianChappell 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brentcsutoras.com)
Category: Microsoft adCenter
On December 2, 2008, I(Brent) was invited to join MSN Adcenter’s new Publisher program, which is similar to Google’s Adsense in allowing webmasters to earn money by publishing ads on their site.

I decided to give the program a try and compare the read more »
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Avatar Posted By: yetanotherben 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Another great summary of search patents by David Harry, aka theGypsy. Learn more about using link structure for suggesting related queries, term suggestion for multi-sense query, vision-based document segmentation, web spam page classification usin read more »
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Avatar Posted By: lintocsr 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobyelan.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
This explains the things that search engine crawler should have! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: rishi3211us 26 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo-kolkata.blogspot.com)
Category: Microsoft adCenter
Microsoft Advertising/Live Search introduced a potentially great keyword research tool early November of this year at the Search Marketing Expo in London. It’s an Excel 2007 addin, which gives you the opportunity to very quickly build or expand Sear read more »
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Avatar Posted By: noteeboyz.13 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smartbloggerz.com)
Category: Microsoft
Win With Search” is clearly aimed at increasing searches at Live Search. Inspite of having a decent product live search has not been able to garner more search market share. especially in India as as per alexa it ranks 9th way behind google and goog read more »
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Avatar Posted By: raghavanrp 29 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.thatsseo.com)
Category: Microsoft
Live Search Webmaster tool has been updating its features for quite some time. The recent update includes finding out crawl issues like File not Found, Malware infected URLs etc using the tool. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Musa 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
I don't have as much time to blog about each story this week, being at SES Chicago, but I've been keeping an eye on the news for you. So here are links to news that's happening in the world of search this week:

Microsoft Live Search

A call read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Musa 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft
Responding to European demands that the major search engines cut the length of time they store records of web searches, Microsoft said on Monday it would only store that data for six months as long as Google and Yahoo follow suit.
The New York Time read more »
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Avatar Posted By: netcrawl 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://netcrawl.blogspot.com)
Category: Microsoft
Microsoft Corp. preparing to move threaten to outplay and eventually freeze Google Apps out of the market. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jnelson563 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://jdnweb.net)
Category: Microsoft SEO
MSN using incentives to entice searchers? Will enough people utilize it to make a lock-in affect and retain some users? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Musa 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft
On Black Friday, Microsoft’s Live Search Cashback program went black, in short, the service went down and many shoppers were unable to use the great deals they provided with their merchants. Back then, Microsoft promised to make things right. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ikamay 32 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://internetincomestrategy.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Review of Ultimate Search Engine Ranking Loophole for search engine placement in the high top page of MSN Search read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOkevin 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoveil.tumblr.com)
Category: Microsoft
What is interesting though is if you go to Microsoft Live, search with a query of site:kumo.com, you will see this: read more »
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Avatar Posted By: graywolf 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlesystem.blogspot.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Microsoft's image search engine added another feature that uses image analysis: for each result, you can find similar images. The related images have nothing to do with the original query, so Live Search shows images that include similar patterns. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Teddie 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://adcentercommunity.com)
Category: Microsoft adCenter
Mels writeup of the IAB's Engage for Finance conference at London's Centre Point. read more »
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