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Shop and search on the go
Date : 2008 04 28
Live Search's WebLogWe've just released the latest updates to our browser-based mobile search at m.live.com. One of our major efforts was to bring the power of product search to the convenience of a mobile phone. Think about how much time people spend shopping in brick-and-mortar stores — without the ability to do the pro read more »
News Search – now with RSS
Date : 2008 04 24 Live Search's WebLogYou wanted it, and now you have it. We've incorporated RSS feeds into the browse and search results experience. Subscribe and stay up to date with stories from all categories or for specific searches that you perform. We appreciate all the feedback that you've given us. We take it all seriously and do our bes read more »
xRank™ Celebrity — check out who’s hot and who’s not!
Date : 2008 04 24 Live Search's WebLogThose 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 all other Live Searchers like to search for? And th read more »
Going deep: diving into the site you want
Date : 2008 04 22 Live Search's WebLogWhen 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 the website, and you went there. Good times. But you didn't read more »
Want to know how Live Search is evolving?
Date : 2008 04 17 Live Search's WebLogIn upcoming weeks some of us on the Live Search team will write about the changes we've made for this release across the Live Search family — from Web search through News, Video, and Products. As you put Live Search through its paces, let us know how it works for you. We'll do our best to read all your read more »
We’ve revamped News Search!
Date : 2008 04 17 Live Search's WebLogWith the launch of the new browse experience for News (http://news.live.com), we now bring you the most relevant stories of the day bucketed in categories, such as top stories, local news, and business. At the same time, the news team has revamped the news results page to incorporate many new features to impr read more »
New Release of Live Search Maps and Virtual Earth 3D
Date : 2008 04 11 Live Search's WebLogOur Maps team released new versions of Live Search Maps and Virtual Earth 3D yesterday. Here are some of the highlights: Directions and Traffic enhancements, including 1-Click directions (Party Maps!) Improved 3D cities (Las Vegas is shown below) Labels in Birds Eye imagery Exporting collections t read more »
Snow reports for skiers and boarders
Date : 2008 02 06 Live Search's WebLogWith the winter in full swing, we're excited to announce snow reports for skiers and snowboarders! Search for any ski resort in the United States or Canada to get conditions before you head to the mountain. Links to the resort's site and a link to a map are also shown. Below is the report for Whi read more »
Tafiti Search Visualization (Silverlight + Live Search API) Source Code available
Date : 2007 12 18 Live Search's WebLogThe source code for www.tafiti.com is available! What is Tafiti? It is a search visualization website which brings a new user experience to researching (searching and storing results). It was originally created by Microsoft to demonstrate Silverlight and the Windows Live Search APIs. Today the Windows Live P read more »
Webmaster Tools: Open for Business
Date : 2007 11 15 Live Search's WebLogThis week we're excited to announce that the Live Search Webmaster Center has moved out of its closed beta and we are now open for a public beta. In conjunction with this release we want to announce the creation of the Live Search Webmaster Center blog. In an effort to serve our webmaster communit read more »
Summarizing user reviews for computers and electronics
Date : 2007 11 12 Live Search's WebLogUsers have told us that product reviews are one of the most important research tools they use when shopping for products. The Internet has lots of reviews, but they're usually spread across many sites, which makes finding and reading all of them time consuming. Our team saw this as a great opportunity t read more »
Shopping for electronics just got a whole lot easier
Date : 2007 11 12 Live Search's WebLogUsers have told us that product reviews are one of the most important things they use when shopping for products. The Internet has lots of reviews, but they're usually spread across the many sites, which makes finding and reading all them very time consuming. Our team saw this as a great opportunity to read more »
How we learned to find zune.net
Date : 2007 11 08 Live Search's WebLogAs far as I can tell, it’s still not exceptionally well-known that the homepage for the Microsoft Zune is actually www.zune.net, and not zune.com. You’ll find two things if you assume the latter: that there’s no page for you at that address, and until recently, if you get forwarded on to you read more »
Drive for show, Putt for Dough - 10 Reasons to Love the New Live Search Maps
Date : 2007 10 29 Live Search's WebLogSoftware engineers tend to spend a lot more time working out at the driving range than they do the putting green. Left on our own we'd all be working on stuff like 3D Birds Eye navigation or robotic building modeling; doing a local search for a coffee shop would require first getting strapped up like this Mic read more »
“Do what I mean, not what I say!” [Part 2 of 2]
Date : 2007 10 29 Live Search's WebLogContinuing on with our “Do what I mean, not what I say”, blog post from last time, here are some additional categories we tackled with this initiative. Equivalencies “We do really badly on the query ca chp” a coworker complained in one email. “Ca chp?” I thought. “What the heck doe read more »
“Do what I mean, not what I say!” [Part 1 of 2]
Date : 2007 10 24 Live Search's WebLogYes, that's an odd title, let me explain. We've been working on returning the very best search results for your intent, not just for the particular search terms that you happen to have chosen as a vehicle to transmit that intent. There's an important difference there and it's been our focus read more »
3 New Updates to Live Search Mobile
Date : 2007 10 19 Live Search's WebLogOn Monday the 15th we also released a number of updates for our Live Search Mobile products, including: Voice input and gas prices in Live Search for Windows Mobile, A new beta for BlackBerry devices, and Improved mapping and directions in browser-based search for any mobile phone Details are below - please read more »