Microsoft / Live.com
Live Search for Mobile Launched at 3GSM
At the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft announced the official release of a client application for Windows Mobile devices as well as compatible J2ME capable devices in the US and UK. Some new features have been added, since the beta started back in November. The main features of Live Search for Mobile are: Category-based local searching – [...]
Live Search SOAP API 1.0 Released
The Live.com team has released the first version of the Live Search SOAP API today. A lot of new features have been added to this release since the beta version. Here are the most important improvements: Search Results -Â increased from the first 250 to the first 1,000. And added a flag to disable host collapsing [...]
Microsoft will donate if you use Live Search
Microsoft recently announced the launch of two new programs to help children in need. All that you have to do, to help them is to try Live Search on one of the “click for the cause†sites, and each search you do will add more money to Microsoft’s donation. The two organizations Microsoft is working with in [...]
December U.S. Search Engine Rankings
comScore Networks today released its monthly Search analysis of activity across competitive search engines. In December 2006, Google Sites captured 47.3 percent of the U.S. search market, gaining 0.4 share points from the previous month. Yahoo! Sites grew 0.3 share points, maintaining its second place ranking with 28.5 percent of U.S. searches, followed by Microsoft Sites [...]
Microsoft and Baidu announced a strategic alliance
Microsoft and Baidu today announced a strategic alliance on paid search services, which will officially commence in December 2006. As a result of this strategic alliance, Microsoft will display Baidu’s paid search listings on the search results pages of certain Microsoft websites, including MSN, Live, and other partner websites in China. More details can be [...]
Live.com top searches for 2006
The Live.com team has compiled a nice list of the most searched terms in 2006. The list contains different categories such as celebrity images, news, products, and travel. Because the FIFA World Cup this year, generated so many soccer related searches, they also added a list with the Top 10 soccer searches.
New Book Search from Live.com
The Live.com team has released a beta version of their new book search at http://books.live.com/. This release makes tens of thousands of out-of-copyright books available from their library scanning initiative, including books from the University of California, the University of Toronto, and the British Library. They also announced a new partnerships with the New York Public Library [...]
Microsoft explains how to verify MSNbot
Microsoft has added some information, on how to identify the different types of their MSNbot Crawlers, on the Live Search’s WebLog. The different types of the MSNbot are: MSNBot Main web crawler (www.live.com) MSNBot-Media Images & all other media (images.live.com) MSNBot-NewsBlogs News and blogs (search.live.com/news) MSNBot-Products Products & shopping (products.live.com) MSNBot-Academic Academic search (academic.live.com) They [...]