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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: dannysullivan 541 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 541 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: JohnnyT 535 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 Posted By: tamaruk 518 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchblog.tamar.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
We spotted a couple of things this morning which are a wee bit unusual - Google popping up in MSN for a search term and Affiliate IDs in the index as well. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: EricLander 503 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Form the page: "Microsoft is now following in the successful footsteps of Google Webmaster Central & Yahoo Site Explorer with the limited beta testing of a new Live Search Webmaster Portal." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 501 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sparkinternetmarketing.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Is Microsoft becoming “cooler” than Google? Arguably Microsoft has sat back on it’s laurels when it came to the search and browser wars. In fact, they were falling behind with respect to everything internet related. Google on the other hand embraced read more »
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Avatar Posted By: seoz87 499 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoz.wordpress.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Search Faces On MSN read more »
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Avatar Posted By: perkoch 483 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
More personalization in new Live Search. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ckata 480 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Microsoft Searching
People keep reporting on health.live.com from MS, and I've seen it briefly a few days ago, but now it's offline.

Anybody have any idea why / what's up with it? I know it's in Beta - but offline? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 479 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Bill Slawski uncovers a Microsoft patent application which describes in more detail how users queries can be incorporated into a query expansion and reranking process. Good stuff Bill! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jellymeli 476 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://jellymeli.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
When baby boomers start kicking the can, I predict that the MSN search engine user base is going to depreciate. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: cvos 474 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.netpaths.net)
Category: Microsoft Searching
During a routine MSN search for a generic keyword I found 70% of the results pointed back to Microsoft owned sites.While it may be unintentional, and merely another indicator that Live is Lame, Microsoft is using their search engine to grossly favor read more »
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Avatar Posted By: garyprice 470 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.live.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
In case you missed it (it was easy to miss) Live Search Video is now out of beta. You can find a link on the home page as well as at the top of all results pages. Results also list (next to the URL) the format of the video (Flash, Win, etc.) and the read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WebGuerrilla 469 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: Jehochman 469 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Vanessa Fox blogs live from Microsoft's Searchification event. She shares details of Microsoft customer satisfaction surveys and what Microsoft plans to do to improve search and to provide more support to webmasters. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: justin 469 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Dave just posted a link to the new Live video search. It's pretty sweet and when you mouseover the thumbnails it plays the video for you. He has a spiderman example. My search for Transformers was pretty cool too. :) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bartimus 469 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.oldhatseo.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
I noticed this a few days back and just had to share it with people who may find the novelty in it. I could have shared it with my wife but she doesn't care. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ryan 463 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.dotcult.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
The latest Live.com algorithm update seems to be giving a lot of weight to keywords in URLs - so much so that it's returning parking pages, coming soon sites, and thin affiliates for highly competitive search terms. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: chiefingredient 463 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.chiefingredient.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the latest updates to their Live Search Engine. We take a closer look... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: billmarshall 457 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Despite a fanfare of publicity the new MSN/Live search seems to produce rather poor results for searches that should be fairly easy. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: billmarshall 455 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Comscore figures show far east search market increasing fast. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: floppy 447 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Microsoft Live launches a new 411 local search with voice activation. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: billslawski 442 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogs.msdn.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
This morning, the Live Search team announced a couple of additions to their search service, in the first part of a two post announcement - Auto Spell Correction and Stemming.

They explain the additions in terms of how they help to "meet the int read more »
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Avatar Posted By: golander9 441 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Looks like the folks over at the Live side news blog agree with your thinking.

http://www.liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2007/10/25/is-live-search-coming-to-facebook.aspx read more »
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Avatar Posted By: multiz 441 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://multiz.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
A flaw in their new algorithm. read more »
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