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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: garyprice 415 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.resourceshelf.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
Bill and everyone at SEL do a great job tracking down new patents of interest so we've taken a step back on ResourceShelf. However, from time to tim read more »
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Avatar Posted By: seobook 414 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
I recently helped a friend move a large site. Google and Yahoo! quickly responded to the site move, but Microsoft's Live Search went dead on the mov read more »
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Avatar Posted By: garyprice 414 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.resourceshelf.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
Here's a new paper (8 pages; PDF) by Nick Craswell and Martin Szummer (MSR Cambridge, UK) the will be delivered at the at the SIGIR Conference later this month.

From the abstract:
"Search engin read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 413 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://money.cnn.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
From the press release

"Microsoft is introducing a search engine optimization service, helping partners to connect with more leads online. This service helps ISVs drive broader awareness of and traffic to their solutions, generate qualified lead read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bhartzer 412 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.dmnews.com)
Category: Microsoft adCenter
In 2006, Microsoft introduced the Microsoft adCenter Labs, a partnership between the company’s adCenter team and Microsoft Research. The adCenter Labs — which comprise researchers, analysts and developers who cultivate technologies in paid search, b read more »
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Avatar Posted By: nitinpai 410 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://techtracer.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
The specialty of the Bliss wallpapers is the unique way of the lawn which spreads apart to about half way up to the screen and the above half is taken by different types of skies. This blue and lush green combination of colors brings a sense of peac read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2007 - 12:09 am
Posted By: Skitzzo 409 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seorefugee.com)
Category: Microsoft
Whew! As a Microphobe in good standing for over two decades, I never thought I’d say that. But the truth is, hating Microsoft just isn’t as much fun as it used to be. The reason is simple. As a web designer and developer, Microsoft and the indigniti read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 409 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: sensebot 408 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Microsoft Searching
SenseBot, a semantic meta-search engine (http://www.sphinn.com/story/318) has just added support for Windows Live Search. Previously, only Google and Yahoo were supported. You can try it and compare the results at www.sensebot.net. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: googlelady 408 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.googlelady.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
The new MSN Search is quickly gaining popularity among internet search engine users. Google still being the #1 search engine with Yahoo in #2, and MSN in a strong #3. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ann 407 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.yahoo.com)
Category: Microsoft
MSN advertisers can now advertise on Ask.com without signing up separately for Ask.com's program, but only if you use Microsoft's tool Office Live.

Will this option eventually be opened up to all advertisers? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: chriswinfield 407 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.com.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
They are teaming up with JiWire and will offer a 30-second commercial before people can access the network for free. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DaveN 405 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Microsoft
Screen shots of the soon to be released Microsoft Gatineau read more »
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Avatar Posted By: seoz87 402 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoz.wordpress.com)
Category: Microsoft
Microsoft Announce New Privacy Policy read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JohnnyT 402 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Live Search Monday today... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 25, 2007 - 12:06 pm
Posted By: rustybrick 400 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
After waiting and not knowing if Microsoft supports Sitemaps, they finally have said they accept them via your robots.txt file. You cannot ping nor upload your sitemap via a console yet. But that is "coming soon." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bwelford 400 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.cre8asite.net)
Category: Microsoft Other
Internet Explorer causes a number of dilemmas. Which browser should I use? Which browser should I design for? However it is Microsoft who has the biggest dilemma on how to handle Version 6 versus Version 7 in the market place and counter the Firefo read more »
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Avatar Posted By: AndrewGirdwood 399 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.theregister.com)
Category: Microsoft
Ballmer was speaking at the close of a year that took analysts outside of their Microsoft comfort zone, as the company spent $6bn on ad specialist aQuantative and $6bn on R&D activities related to search and ads. Additionally, Microsoft hired 13,000 read more »
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Avatar Posted By: HamletBatista 398 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.microsoft.com)
Category: Microsoft adCenter
Microsoft Corp. today announced it has agreed to acquire AdECN, Inc., an advertising exchange platform company based near Santa Barbara, Calif. AdECN’s technology serves as a hub where advertising networks can come together in a neutral, real-time a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: AndrewGirdwood 397 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.somebits.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
When I was at Google I was nervous when Microsoft started making a serious go at the search and ads business. Microsoft has a lot of smart engineers and resources and a powerful monopoly that they have a history of illegally exploiting. As it turns read more »
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Avatar Posted By: garyprice 395 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.resourceshelf.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
Last week the Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting took place at MSFT HQ in Redmond, WA.

In this post we've linked to full text transcripts and video presentation of the speakers (Ballmer, Gates, Ozzie, et al.) who had something to say about adve read more »
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Avatar Posted By: PaulWoodhouse 392 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingconference.org)
Category: Microsoft Other
As Director of Enterprise Marketing at Microsoft, Jeff knows a thing or two about customer relationship management. His session at Online Marketing: Innovations that Work should be one of the highlights of the conference.

For those who aren't ab read more »
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Avatar Posted By: everett 392 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.informationweek.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
In the film version of Minority Report, a personalized ad that knows about past purchases greets a character as he enters the Gap. Now Microsoft has filed for a patent that could eventually help make these advertising scenarios come true.

Thanks read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 8, 2007 - 4:39 am
Posted By: rustybrick 387 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Microsoft adCenter
Get this, Microsoft confirmed they can't handle all the requests from their advertisers. The ad editorial process has slowed down to a halt because of their lack of reps to handle the volume. So sad... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: garyprice 386 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.resourceshelf.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
It was a busy week in Redmond for new domains. In the past week Microsoft registered domains in 4 primary areas:

+ Local Search
ex: LocalSearchPuids.com

+ RSS
ex: RSSNewsSkimmer.com

+ Getting Ready for Christmas
ex: QuerySanta.com. .net read more »
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