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Powerset joins Live Search

Posted Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:30 AM by livesearch
We're excited to announce that we've reached an agreement to acquire Powerset , a San Francisco-based search and natural language company. Powerset will join our core Search Relevance team, remaining intact in San Francisco. Powerset brings with it natural Read More...
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Live Search cashback now live on eBay

Posted Thursday, June 12, 2008 3:42 PM by livesearch
Now all of eBay's "Buy it Now" offers will be eligible for cashback rewards . With eBay's expansive catalog of products, from jewelry to electronics, you'll start to see more cashback ads appearing in our search results. That means more ways for you to Read More...
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Helping you Search AND Give

Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 9:00 AM by livesearch
One of the most exciting developments we've had in the last year was the success of our inaugural Search and Give program where your queries helped to raise more than $250,000 for local schools and non-profits. Over the course of the year the program Read More...
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Managing search engine access to your content

Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 9:00 AM by livesearch
We at Live Search are pleased to announce another collaboration with Yahoo and Google aimed at making webmasters' lives easier. Webmasters have long used the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) to control how search engines access and display their content. Read More...
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Finding the "page not found"

Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 8:00 AM by livesearch
Has this ever happened to you? You search online for information and click a promising link only to get an error page staring back at you: These generic 404 error pages leave you stranded, with no option but to click the back button and start over, or Read More...
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Live Search…coming to a toolbar near you

Posted Monday, June 02, 2008 8:22 AM by livesearch
With today’s HP announcement and the recent MSN toolbar release, I want to discuss our recent moves in the toolbar space. Overall, these distribution deals come down to three things: 1. Live Search is ready for primetime These types of deals require a Read More...
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Wikipedia gets big

Posted Friday, May 30, 2008 12:55 PM by livesearch
Check it out: 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 article to start you out on the right path. For Wikipedia results, Read More...
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Book search winding down

Posted Friday, May 23, 2008 7:45 AM by livesearch
Today we informed our partners that we are ending the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and that both sites will be taken down next week. Books and scholarly publications will continue to be integrated into our Search results, but not Read More...
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You talk. We listen.

Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 2:05 PM by livesearch
In our last release of Live Search for Windows Mobile we snuck in a little feature that allows users to send feedback directly to the engineering team. Since then, we've received tons of messages from users, many of which have been requests for new functionality. Read More...
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More than a pretty face

Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 11:40 AM by livesearch
Along with the release of our new search experience, we'd like to give some background into the design team and process that went into all the changes you see. You might not immediately think of design as being a critical part of a search product, but Read More...
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Answering your questions on QnA

Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 2:40 PM by livesearch
We've introduced our "Renaissance" release of Live Search QnA Beta . Our re-birth signifies the beginning of a new set of features that we'll continue to grow. We had three goals for this release: Focus on the QnA experience for new users. Encourage users Read More...
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xRank™ Musician — better than top 40 night at the disco

Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:07 AM by livesearch
Just when you thought we'd stop at Celebrities, we now bring you (drum roll, please) Musicians ! xRank TM provides much more than just a way to track search trends — it's much more than that — it's a social commentary. With xRank TM Musicians we bring Read More...
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New Product Search gives you more options

Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 3:20 PM by livesearch
With the recent update of the Product Search experience ( http://search.live.com/products/ ), users can both research and find deals on products within Live Search. We've incorporated feedback from our users during the beta cycle and revamped the user Read More...
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xRank™ Celebrity — check out who’s hot and who’s not!

Posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:40 AM by livesearch
Those of you who search for stuff related to celebrities in your spare time raise your hands. C'mon now, don't be sheepish about it — we know the numbers, and we know you do it because we do it, too. Here's a thought. What if we could rank who you and Read More...
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Going deep: diving into the site you want

Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:00 PM by livesearch
When we were thinking about what searches we could improve on for this release, one thing we realized was that we actually were already getting a lot of searches right. A bunch of these were searches about a particular website you wanted. We returned Read More...
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