Microsoft Unveils Machine Translation Tool Bundled with Live Search
	Microsoft has unveiled a new Machine Translation tool, courtesy of Microsoft Research, bundled with Live Search as an online service designed to provide writing assistance. The ESL (English as a Second Language) Assistant is nothing more than a prototype at this point in time, and is set up to focus on a limited number of ... [read more >>]
	08 July 2008, 11:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Buys Natural Language Arsenal for Live Search
	Microsoft has acquired a natural language processing arsenal for Live Search to gun down its main rivals on the search engine and online advertising market, Google and Yahoo. The Redmond company aims no less than to introduce a new standard of relevance quality for mainstream search, one which is synonymous with the search engine actually understanding user queries. For Microsoft, taking search to the next level means adding rele ... [read more >>]
	02 July 2008, 03:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Live Search to Disrupt the Search Marketplace
	Microsoft is positioning Live Search as a disrupting element on the search engine and online advertising marketplace, betting big on the organic growth abilities of its search engine. With the recent partnership inked by the no. 1 and no. 2 search and online advertising players, Google and Yahoo, Microsoft's mission will be that much harder, if not impossible. Still, the Redmond company is applying an old recipe, which is no ... [read more >>]
	17 June 2008, 06:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google, Yahoo and Live Search Robots Exclusion Protocol
	Out of all the aspects of the word wide web equation, search engines are without a doubt the items offering the least amount of control to either end users or content developers and designers. Sure, given sufficient white or black SEO techniques, search engines can be manipulated, but actual control is out of the reach of mere webmasters. There are exceptions, of course, in which not search engines, but the indexing process and t ... [read more >>]
	06 June 2008, 05:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Is Looking to Spread the Live Search Wealth Around
	Microsoft seems committed to spread the Live Search wealth around and, in this regard, debuted a number of initiatives designed to offer financial incentives in exchange for user queries. In addition to the Live Search Club and the Live Search Cashback programs, the Redmond giant is also making donations to charities and schools around the world via Search and Give. ... [read more >>]
	05 June 2008, 05:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Wins Biggest Live Search Distribution Deal in History
	With all organic attempts to grow its share on the search engine market turned to dust and with a Yahoo marriage failed miserably, Microsoft is turning to desperate measures, suited for the desperate times it has to endure in the Google monopoly. The Redmond company announced that it has inked the biggest Live Search distribution deal in history with Hewlett-Packard. As a direct result, all the 2009 HP Consumer PCs which will be shipped in ... [read more >>]
	02 June 2008, 12:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Doubly Relevant Search, Courtesy of Microsoft
	When Microsoft took its sight of Yahoo, Chairman Bill Gates explained that the software giant would grow its search engine and online advertising businesses organically, focusing on innovation. The past year, the Redmond company poured in excess of $7 billion into research and development, and a potion of the funds went to improving Live Search. In this context, Roy Levin, Director, Silicon Valley Lab, explained that Query-Dependent Rankin ... [read more >>]
	26 May 2008, 07:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Live Search Books and Live Search Academic Are Dead
	Microsoft's exploration of analog text has come to an end. Satya Nadella, the company's senior vice president search, portal and advertising announced at the end of the past week that Microsoft was pulling the plug on the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects. Both websites will be taken down completely, Live Search remaining the sole index for books and scholarly publications. But not only the two websites and ... [read more >>]
	26 May 2008, 04:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A Microsoft Yahoo Marriage Too Little and Too Late to Impact Google
	While a complete takeover of Yahoo is no longer in Microsoft's plans, any sort of pseudo-marriage between the two companies might just prove a case of too little and too late. This because both Microsoft and Yahoo continue to see their shares of the search engine market eroding constantly, in the context in which they have so far failed to form a common front against Google. According to the latest statistics made available ... [read more >>]
	23 May 2008, 06:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Bill Gates Unveils the Search Revolution to Bring Google Down
	With or without Yahoo or even critical pieces of the Sunnyvale-based Internet giant, Microsoft is determined to go after Google with all it’s got. And excluding an evolution through acquisitions or mergers, the Redmond company can only generate growth on the search engine and online advertising markets organically. In this context, Microsoft has been unwrapping the spring 2008 update to Live Search, a release which culminated at the advanc ... [read more >>]
	22 May 2008, 06:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Looks to Buy Google's Users with Hard Cash
	After withdrawing its unsolicited acquisition proposal for Yahoo, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer indicated that the Redmond company's online search and advertising strategy was not based exclusively on the integration of the Sunnyvale Internet giant. Chairman Bill Gates confirmed that Microsoft would increase its search share organically, since the failed takeover of Yahoo could no longer haul it as the no. 2 of the ... [read more >>]
	21 May 2008, 06:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Releases of Windows Live and Live Search for Windows Mobile
	New versions of Windows Live and Live Search are now available to users with devices running Microsoft's Windows operating system for mobile phones. Windows Live for Windows Mobile is an application that needs to be installed on the mobile phone in order to provide access to the services offered by the Redmond company. The latest release is set up to expand the functionality provided via the integration of Windows Live and Windows Mob ... [read more >>]
	16 May 2008, 07:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Search Is as Well as Inexistent in Europe
	Microsoft's search properties, with Live Search at the forefront, are as well as inexistent in Europe. The Redmond company has a share of just 1.9% of all the volume of searches in Europe, which makes Microsoft an insignificant player. In March 2008, according to statistics released by comScore, Microsoft managed to attract only 469 million searches in Europe. This is nothing compared with the 19,434 billion queries that wer ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2008, 07:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Live Search: Simple and Powerful. Human. Fast
	Starting mid-April, Microsoft has introduced the new stage in the evolution of Live Search. The release affected not only the core Live Search engine, but also additional components of the Redmond company's web search services including News, Video, and Products. The revamped search experience is not limited to an under-the-hood evolution, as Evan Malahy, Designer, Live Search revealed, also featuring relevant changes in ter ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2008, 03:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Live Search Products Goes Against Google Product Search
	At the end of the past week, Microsoft shipped another overhauled piece of the new Live Search roll-out. In this manner, the Live Search Products service not only fits into the latest wave of Live Search releases, but also delivers the first signs of life of Live Search's e-commerce orie ... [read more >>]
	22 April 2008, 06:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Reduce the Load MSNBot Delivers to Servers
	Microsoft is currently rolling out a range of improvements to its Windows Live platform of services and applications. And the optimizations are by no means limited to the surface. The Redmond company began introducing the new release of Live Search family of services and solutions l ... [read more >>]
	21 April 2008, 11:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Live Search – The Evolution
	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 ... [read more >>]
	18 April 2008, 07:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The New Live Search Did Nothing for Microsoft
	Back in September 2006, as a part of the evolution to Windows Live Wave 2.0, Microsoft introduced the new Live Search. But six months later, the largest update in the history of Live Search since the service was introduced in January 2005 did nothing for Microsoft on the search engine market. The Redmond company's search audience, as well as its slice of searches, continues to erode month after month with Google swallowing a ... [read more >>]
	20 March 2008, 04:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Embraces Cross-Domain Sitemaps
	Even though the three major players on the search engine market are stuck in an endless three-horse race for audience, market share and the biggest slice of the online advertising industry, Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have no problems joining hands from time to time. Especially if collaborating will benefit all search engine developers equally. It is the case of support for cross-domain sitemaps. One thing that Microsoft needs to do with L ... [read more >>]
	28 February 2008, 05:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Players Better Than Yahoo's and Microsoft’s
	The first ever SMX Search Bowl took place last night and had teams from Google, Yahoo!, Ask.com, Live Search and the SEM All Star Team line up at the starting line. A fierce battle they fought, dodging trick questions prepared by Search Engine Land, but in the end the cup was all the teams wanted and everything else was just insignificant. Sort of. Like the title says, Google won, and did that by a landslide. At the other end ... [read more >>]
	28 February 2008, 03:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Crawling Before Walking – Live Search Crawler Evolves
	When it comes down to search engines it's never actually a matter of crawling before walking. Crawlers are specific tools associated with search engines designed to explore and index websites. In this context, Microsoft announced that it has evolved its crawler for Live Search, in order to improve efficiency. MSNbot taken to version 1.1 is the way Microsoft will implement a more efficient crawl, effectively taking Live Searc ... [read more >>]
	13 February 2008, 03:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What's Left of the Windows Codenames Whistler and Blackcomb at Microsoft
	There was a time when codenames reigned supreme at Microsoft. A time when the future versions of the Windows platform in the development process were referred to with resonating labels. A time when the practice of associating products under development with codenames had established itself as a tradition, an integer part of the Microsoft culture. This was, of course, before Windows Vista. When Whistler and Blackcomb were not just two sky r ... [read more >>]
	07 February 2008, 07:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Introducing Codename Rome and Windows Live Wave 3
	In the fall of 2007, Microsoft evolved the Windows Live online suite of products and services in all its aspects. From the desktop clients Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Photo Gallery to online offerings, such as Live Search, Windows Live Wave 2 touched all aspects of the Redmond company's presence in the cloud. And yes, while the potential takeover of Yahoo, following the completion of a $44.6 billion transac ... [read more >>]
	05 February 2008, 03:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft – Where Is the Love?
	Microsoft is seeing very little love for its efforts on the search market, but the company is on an overall ascendant trend. Still, the Redmond company's search engine doesn't even come close to its main rival from Mountain View Google, from a position where its services are essentially synonymous with Internet search, and it is the indisputable pack leader of the search engine market. Moreover, Google is benefiting fro ... [read more >>]
	01 February 2008, 05:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Does a Soft Porn Past Lay Beneath Live Search's Left vs. Right?
	The fact that it is but the constant bronze winner in a three-horse race against Google and Yahoo, on the search engine market, does nothing to stop Microsoft from experimenting with its search engine. Back in 2006, the Redmond company introduced Ms. Dewey. An innovative approach at a search engine, ... [read more >>]
	30 January 2008, 04:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Slowly Slips in the Search Gutter but Is Still Looking to the Stars
	Live Search 2.0 or no Live Search 2.0, Microsoft is slowly slipping into the gutter of the search engine market. But this does not mean that the Redmond company has thrown in the towel. Not by a long shut. Even as a bottom feeder of the search engine market, scraping along and surviving with the crumbs from Google's and Yahoo's search feast, Microsoft is looking at the stars. And in this respect, the Redmond company has set for i ... [read more >>]
	24 January 2008, 04:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Now Live Search Has Got an Actual Chance to Leave Google in the Dust
	According to the latest statistics for the search engine market, Microsoft's Live Search is not doing that great. The move to Live Search 2,0 has done little to boost Live Search, and the Redmond company's search engine is still the third behind Google and Yahoo in terms of audience and query volume. But at the same time, Live Search has got an actual chance to leave both Google and Yahoo in the dust. Literally! The images includ ... [read more >>]
	23 January 2008, 03:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Live Search Swallows the Crumbs from Google's Feast
	Microsoft's Live Search is reduced to swallowing the crumbs from Google's feast on the search engine market. But the Redmond company has little problems embracing the audience that slips off Google. And the fact of the matter is that Microsoft lives and breathes on the queries shaved of the Mountain View-based search engine giant. The traditional occupant of the third position on the search engine market, in the buffer zone betwe ... [read more >>]
	21 January 2008, 03:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Perfect Website Recipe for Live Search
	While Google has indeed become synonymous with Internet search, web developers cannot afford to ignore alternative search engines. By bridging websites with users, search engines are an important source of traffic, but not until domains are indexed and ranked. Indexation is an automated process that will generally involve only submitting a website to a search engine. Growing to the highest possible ranking, i.e. making the website the firs ... [read more >>]
	18 January 2008, 07:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft vs. Google vs. Yahoo
	Microsoft, Google and Yahoo are locked tight in a three online horse race for the largest share of eyeballs. The inherent prize of massing the largest Internet audience is synonymous with a high monetization potential in terms of online advertising. Now, on the online advertising market, Google is the obvious pack leader, and the Mountain-View based search giant will only grow stronger once it completes the acquisition of Dou ... [read more >>]
	16 January 2008, 05:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Starts 2008 on Top of the World, Microsoft Sinks Toward the Bottom
	Well, it goes like this, Google starts 2008 on top of the world, the world wide web that is, while Microsoft sinks toward the bottom of the search engine market. The Mountain View-based company is increasingly becoming synonymous with Internet search, as Google simply manages to fit into mundane culture and trends. At the same time, Yahoo is a colossus not easily dislodged, and its survival skills keep it tucked away safe between Google an ... [read more >>]
	09 January 2008, 02:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Search Sinking Like a Rock
	Bad news for Microsoft as 2007 comes to an end. The Redmond company's search share continues its process of erosion, placing Live Search on a strict trajectory toward the background of the search market. Even with the complex overhauling of Live Search started at the end of September, synonymous with the introduction of version 2.0 for the service debuted in 2005, Microsoft is still an undisputed underdog in comparison to Go ... [read more >>]
	28 December 2007, 06:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Live Search No Longer Listing Google Ads
	This year, Google got an early and unexpected holiday gift from Microsoft. Whether it was the Christmas spirit or merely a glitch in the Redmond company's search engine indexing process, the result has been the same: Live Search, a direct Google competitor, served users Google ads. Homer Simpson's D’oh! trademark onomatopoeia, repeated in the situation by ... [read more >>]
	27 December 2007, 06:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft's Live Search on Google's Orbit
	Microsoft's Live Search is, at the end of 2007, nothing more than a satellite on Google's orbit. This while the Mountain View-based company has positioned itself at the center of the search engine market. In the fall and winter of 2007, Microsoft introduced the first major update to Live Search since the service debuted back in 2007. But, taking Live Search to ... [read more >>]
	27 December 2007, 03:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Kicked Off of the Top of the World Wide Web by Microsoft
	At the end of 2007, Google got kicked off of the top of the world wide web by Microsoft. The now traditional rivalry between the two companies, one just as acute as the face-off between Microsoft and Apple, is translated in the race for Internet eyeballs. Eyeballs that are subsequently monetized via online advertising. And in addition, the two companies are also slicing up the search engine market, which reflects on the advertising revenue ... [read more >>]
	14 December 2007, 07:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Cloaking and Live Search 2.0
	At the end of September 2007, Microsoft introduced the first major evolution to Live Search since the search engine debuted under the Windows Live brand umbrella in 2005. Moving to version 2.0 meant for the Redmond company delivering enhancements to a variety of aspects, making up the Live Search puzzle. However, increased focus was placed on boosting the relevance of the results returned to user queries. Nathan Buggia, Lead Program Manage ... [read more >>]
	14 December 2007, 06:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

No Search Market Share Present for Microsoft this Year
	'Tis the season for Microsoft to continue to be the undisputed underdog on the search engine market. The Redmond company, with the combined result from MSN and Live Search, has managed to amount to nothing more than the bronze medal in a three horse race against Yahoo and Google. This is the only conclusion than can be drawn as the end of 2007 closes in. Microsoft President of Platforms & Services, Kevin Johnson, unveil ... [read more >>]
	13 December 2007, 09:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Introducing the Microsoft Christmas CoolWall
	Welcome to the Microsoft Christmas CoolWall. What is it and what can you do with it? Well, first of all, it is a project designed to permit Microsoft to flex its Silverlight and Live Search muscles in a brand new combination. But, the mixture of the two technologies from the Redmond company makes up quite an interesting application that users can tur ... [read more >>]
	11 December 2007, 10:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Pumps New Resources into Its Advertising Infrastructure
	While racing for the number 2 position on the online advertising market, in the next three to five years – according to Kevin Johnson, President of Platforms & Services - Microsoft has already debuted pumping steroids into its underlying infrastructure. Starting today, Microsoft adCenter and Live Search will have extra resources to offer advertisers, search marketers and webmasters, namely two new tools and an accreditation p ... [read more >>]
	03 December 2007, 09:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Live Search Webmaster Center Is... Live
	Microsoft's Live webmaster portal is opened for business. The Redmond company's Live Search Webmaster Center is a set of online offerings designed to work in conjunction with the new Live Search 2.0. Addressed at webmasters, the online service and tools have evolved quietly in private beta so far, but as of November 14, Microsoft has opened i ... [read more >>]
	16 November 2007, 03:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What’s New in Microsoft Land: 15th – 19th October 2007
	Although Microsoft never looked like a company which has the ability to compete with Google’s search engine, the Redmond-based giant remained focused on its product and released improvements every once in a while. On Monday, it continued this update process and rolled out a major pack of goodies for ... [read more >>]
	21 October 2007, 11:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Is Not Even in Third Place in the Search Race
	Microsoft is the undisputed underdog of the search market, and the now traditional occupant of the third position in the constant race against direct rivals Google and Yahoo. But the fact of the matter is that the combined results of MSN and Live Search do not manage to ensure that the Redmond company will trail only the Mountain View and the Sunnyvale Internet giants. According to the latest statistics made available by Internet metrics[A ... [read more >>]
	10 October 2007, 04:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

People Are Leaving Windows Live Like Rats from a Sinking Ship
	Microsoft employees are leaving Windows Live like rats deserting a sinking ship. And this, despite the Redmond company debuting in the summer the next phase in the evolution of the suite of products and services hosted in its operating system in the cloud. Windows Live received a redesign, and an overhaul at the level of offerings with new betas and a unified installed. The backbone of the platform, Windows Live was also revamped, a visual ... [read more >>]
	08 October 2007, 13:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Swallows Jellyfish Search Engine
	Taking Live Search to version 2.0 is not the end of the road for Microsoft's search engine under the Windows Live brand. To confirm the ongoing evolution of its efforts focused on the search engine market, the Redmond company is getting ready to add a new member to the Live search family. Microsoft announced that it has swallowed Jellyfish.com, a search engine dedicated entirely to comparative-shopping, and essentially positioned as a ... [read more >>]
	02 October 2007, 04:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Inside the Windows Live Translator Beta Using Technology Built under Linux
	A couple of weeks back, Microsoft unveiled Windows Live Translator, the company's very own online translation service. This is the first step that the Redmond company has taken into the free online machine translation field and has done so with the help of the Machine Translation technology from Systran, developed under the open source Linux oper ... [read more >>]
	25 September 2007, 12:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Do You Google? Will Microsoft's Live Search 2.0 Google?
	The past year, Google became synonymous with search. Literally. The term was included in dictionaries as a transitive verb, indicating the generalization of a corporate brand and the complete identification with the process and service served under its umbrella. Microsoft is still lagging behind the Mountain View at a distance in terms of the actual share on the market, but when it comes to its own brands of search, the Redmond company is ... [read more >>]
	24 September 2007, 03:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Search Takes Another Turn for the Worse
	Microsoft's search engines have been an oscillating presence on the market. With Google becoming synonymous with Internet search, and with Yahoo a traditional runner up, the Redmond company can barely commit to the third position in the race against its direct rivals. It is obvious that Microsoft wants more, and that the company is pouring a consistent amount of effort into pushing up MSN and Live Search. But the results are always un ... [read more >>]
	21 September 2007, 03:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Search Cannibalism: Microsoft Is Eating Away at Yahoo
	Microsoft is eating away at Yahoo in a pure case of cannibalism on the search engine market. Cannibalism because the Redmond and the Sunnyvale companies are traditional partners on a number of common initiatives and projects, the most successful of which is the interoperability bridge between their respective instant messaging clients, Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger, debuted in 2006. But still, the search market is a dog eat do ... [read more >>]
	20 September 2007, 03:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft's New Live Search Goes...Live
	Microsoft's new Live Search has gone live. Live Search is the Redmond company's search engine offered as an alternative to MSN back in 2005. However, an alternative designed to grow to be complementary with MSN, while at the same time becoming the foundation for Microsoft's Software plus Services business strategy. Live Search, as well as the ... [read more >>]
	19 September 2007, 05:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Windows Live Search + GPS = Microsoft Knows Exactly Where You Are
	Live Search is a Microsoft offering debuted under the Windows Live brand umbrella and meant to be an alternative to MSN Search, although the two search engines ended up being complementary, joined at the hip by the audience both as brands and functionality. Still, the Redmond company's efforts for driving its share of the search engine mart up are consistently focused on Live Search. This is partly because Live Search, as a fragment o ... [read more >>]
	18 September 2007, 06:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia