Microsoft's Live Search, overhauled at the end of the past year with the largest upgrade since its introduction in 2005, continues to evolve. According to the Redmond company, the new release of Live Search family of services and solutions, spanning over News, Video, and Products, is already being rolled out. On the surface, users are bound to notice first the redesign introduced to the Live Search default page. However, at this point in time, as the roll-out is still incomplete, there is a discordance between the new Live Search page and the pages that display query results.

Additionally, Microsoft has also revamped the News Search component of Live Search. "With the launch of the new browse experience for News, 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 improve your search experience," revealed a member of the News Search team.

The new browse experience for the time being is not available to end users. An error message reading "this site is temporarily unavailable, please check back soon," is the new complete experience delivered. However, Microsoft is promising that end users will be able to enjoy aggregated news, and breaking stories which will be indexed, cataloged and offered for viewing instantaneously. News Live will also offer multimedia content, local news, and will permit viewers to filter the materials and sort articles, but also perform related searches.

"More to come. We're excited to jumpstart News with these new features, and we have a lot more planned in the coming months. We'll be pushing out RSS support soon, and for those who've noticed that we don't have blogs in our sources yet, rest assured - we're getting to them. Our goal is to ensure that we have as many sources as possible in our news search, and we'll continue to innovate and experiment to make sure we have the right feature set to enable that," the member of the News Search team added.