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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 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: 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: MelC 56 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://adcentercommunity.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Sign up to the new Live Search APIs for developers and publishers! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 56 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
TechCrunch - Microsoft’s Live.com portal will change significantly this evening. No longer will it be a simple search engine with a few other services bolted on. It’s now a social network, too, pulling in activity information and content from around read more »
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Avatar Posted By: zigojacko 59 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Continuing on with its strategy to build search share by gaining distribution partners, Microsoft has landed a deal to have its MSN Toolbar offered to anyone in the United States who downloads Java for Internet Explorer. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mdvaldosta 70 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.joehayes.org)
Category: Microsoft Searching
How to get a website banned in MSN/Live search quickly reincluded by using Mocrosoft's webmaster forum. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: footinmouthdisease 90 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
MSN is sending another social search experiment into the world... but it raises privacy concerns with it's automatic system of sharing searches: Do you want your searches known?? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ianvisits 94 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vnunet.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Microsoft is to locate one of its new European research centres in London. The other two will be in Paris and Munich. Each centre will be staffed with local researchers and will pay special attention to improving search and retail operations in Euro read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 98 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: theGypsy 99 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: searchenginefriend 113 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
I think the update started a few weeks ago when they dropped one of my clients completely for no reason. They've since been re-included, but I'll have to keep a closer eye now. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: matthewdiehl 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.forbes.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Forget about that $44 billion takeover bid for Yahoo. Microsoft's latest assault on Google is slier.
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"We didn't design this with Google in mind," insists Internet Explorer head Dean Hachamovitch. He adds: "It's not clear what the consequences read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 133 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: anthonyverre 167 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: Chris1 167 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: WannabeSEO 174 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
The title’s a bit misleading because total searches were up 7% month-over-month, but Microsoft search definitely gained more than the other engines. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: KDye 174 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vertical-leap.co.uk)
Category: Microsoft Searching
How to modify the existing Greasemonkey Number MSN Results script to work for search.live.com too. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Oatmeal 204 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.portfolio.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
If Microsoft is back at the table trying to buy Yahoo's search business, an outside observer can only conclude that Microsoft has failed miserably at search. The question then is: How can Microsoft have tried so hard to crack the search market and f read more »
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Avatar Posted By: kevinheisler 205 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Microsoft builds out its search technology team in Europe. A top Techmeme story today. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MelC 205 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.melcarson.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
MS Investing In A Search Hub For Europe read more »
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Avatar Posted By: kip 209 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
First, thanks for noticing our post.

The "personalized page" link goes to my.live.com, which up until a month or so ago was the live.com personalized page (add live.com gadgets, rss feeds, etc).

Funny how this site expects me to categorize my read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mooreseo 217 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Microsoft’s Search and Give program was inaugurated last year with the aim of raising funds for local schools and non-profits while at the same time promoting the use of Windows Live Search. And just recently, Search and Give Program has introduced read more »
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Avatar Posted By: omarinho 217 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://money-making-online.myddnetwork.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Some days ago, Bill Gates (the Microsoft Chairman) announced a new plan to compete with Google, a move that is being promoted two weeks after the software giant abandoned the bid for Yahoo. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: robgarner 218 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Nice idea to give to those who need it. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jeffquipp 220 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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