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Microsoft has quite a nice treat for people in London this summer. The Redmond company will hand out free ice cream throughout June 2010 across the capital of the United Kingdom. Londoners better keep an eye out for the Bing van, which will travel the city and offer free ice cream to help them better deal with the he... |
7 June 2010
04:49 GMT |
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A “Happy birthday!” is in order for Microsoft’s decision engine. Around this time last year, Microsoft dumped the Live Search brand altogether, overhauled its search efforts, came up with the “decision engine” service and promised to filter the clutter of traditional search engines. This... |
4 June 2010
08:49 GMT |
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In the first half of this year Microsoft killed off Live Search and built the Bing search decision engine in its place. While only time will tell whether Bing is truly the anti-Google, the move is proving a success, at least on some markets. According to statistics made available by the Redmond company, the number of... |
21 October 2009
08:57 GMT |
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Microsoft introduced Bing in June 2009, and a month later the company revealed that the search/decision engine grew its audience by no less than 8% in terms of unique users. However, fact is that the increased user base of Live Search's killer also translates into growth related to the software giant's onli... |
16 July 2009
05:08 GMT |
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As Live Search was replaced with Bing, users of Microsoft's search engine could easily notice that the Redmond-based company was doing things a bit different. One aspect of the evolution introduced with Bing is the Best Match feature. The successor of Live Search is capable, for certain queries, of narrowing dow... |
24 June 2009
04:58 GMT |
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At the beginning of this month, Microsoft launched into the wild its latest search-decision engine, Bing, and it seems that the company is getting ready to come to the market with a Bing application for mobile phones as well. The software solution should come as the successor of the already known Live Search Mobile a... |
23 June 2009
05:11 GMT |
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Microsoft, along with rivals Google and Yahoo, has announced that the maximum number of references supported for sitemaps has been consistently boosted. The sitemap enhancements affect not only Bing, the evolution of Live Search, killed off at the start of this month, but also competitor search engines that participa... |
15 June 2009
03:50 GMT |
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On May 28, 2009, Microsoft introduced not only a new search decision engine, but also a fresh consumer brand, rising from the ashes of the now defunct Live Search. But even before Bing was rolling out worldwide, the Redmond company debuted plans to bring the public's focus on the new brand. June 3rd, 2009 is the... |
3 June 2009
09:41 GMT |
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Live Search is dying, one piece at a time – a mute death, presented by Microsoft as an evolution of its search engine. The Redmond company introduced Bing, formerly codenamed Kumo, on May 28, 2009, and it continues to roll out the service globally even at this time, with the process scheduled to be complete tom... |
2 June 2009
05:21 GMT |
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The constant evolution of Microsoft's search engine affects all aspects of Live Search, including the crawler. MSNBot, as the Live Search crawler is dubbed, was patched at the end of the past week as a direct consequence of feedback received by the Redmond company. According to the software giant, the move is an... |
22 May 2009
07:36 GMT |
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A year after Microsoft delivered the first taste of Windows 7 via an on-stage demonstration at D: All Things Digital, the technology conference will mark yet another debut for the company. The software giant is reportedly gearing up to unveil to the world the evolution of its search engine. Codenamed Kumo, the upgrad... |
20 May 2009
06:24 GMT |
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Microsoft's attempt to “buy” searches is resonating with consumers, confirms online metrics analysis company Nielsen. Live Search Cashback has apparently driven a 615% audience increase for MSN/Windows Live Shopping Search in a single year. The over 600% growth in eyeballs crowding to Live Search Cas... |
18 May 2009
04:03 GMT |
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Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer considers Microsoft the equivalent of a startup on the search engine market compared to Google. While at the Stanford University on May 6, 2009, Ballmer indicated that both Microsoft and Yahoo are dwarfed by Google in search. And fact is that the Redmond-based company's CEO ... |
7 May 2009
13:02 GMT |
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Come June 1st, 2009, Microsoft will shut down the Search and Give program built around Live Search. Search and Give is designed to allow searchers to ensure that queries entered into Live Search result in donations for a preferred non-profit organization, under the limit of $5 per month for 500 searches. According to... |
4 May 2009
07:13 GMT |
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Microsoft has introduced an update to its Live Search voice recognition phone service. Mobile phone users will now be able to search for traffic and directions information from their devices using nothing more than their voice. All they have to do is call 1-800-CALL-411 or 1-800-225-5411, and voice their inquiries. M... |
28 April 2009
04:06 GMT |
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With Kumo already dogfooded in Redmond, Microsoft has demonstrated a strong commitment to the organic growth of its search engine. However, the evolution of Live Search is not limited to the Kumo search engine tested internally by the software giant. Nathan Buggia and Brett Yount from the Live Search Webmaster Center... |
24 April 2009
07:29 GMT |
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Microsoft, together with the Gnomedex conference, is giving developers a chance to win no less than $10,000 for building web applications leveraging the Live Search application programming interface. The contest, dubbed Code for Green, is focused on two types of apps, both equally “green.” The challenge i... |
21 April 2009
09:28 GMT |
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Live Search has swallowed Cashback, a service designed to give consumers that search, find and ultimately buy products via Microsoft’s search engine a cashback. The Redmond company indicated that with the evolution of the Cashback shopping website it aimed to deliver an improved experience to users. What the so... |
16 April 2009
06:38 GMT |
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A ticket to London this summer can cost even under $500, and similarly, airfare to Rome is down an average of $327 per ticket, airfare to Miami is 28% cheaper, while hotel rates for the sunny destination have been cut 17% and as much as 30% for Las Vegas. Apart from the global recession affecting tourism, all these d... |
3 April 2009
06:34 GMT |
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Microsoft is reportedly cooking a new marketing campaign for its search engine, with the focus not on the existing Live Search, but on codename Kumo. Advertising agency JWT managed to pick up the new Microsoft search campaign worth an estimated $80 to $100 million, with the Redmond company keeping completely mum on t... |
2 April 2009
07:28 GMT |
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In case you needed a reason in order to at least try out the MSN Toolbar, Microsoft has managed to come up with an alluring offer. The Redmond company has tweaked the toolbar so as to make it easy for users shopping online to access financial incentives via its Live Search Cashback program. Cashback permits users who... |
6 March 2009
07:29 GMT |
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Following leaked details revealing that Microsoft was testing a new search engine internally, the Redmond company confirmed officially the existence of Kumo, positioned as a Live Search killer. At the same time, the software giant indicated that a rebranding of Live Search was still being considered. Branded Kumo, wh... |
6 March 2009
06:56 GMT |
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Microsoft has debuted into testing the service designed to kill Live Search. Dubbed Kumo, Japanese for spider or cloud, the new search engine from the Redmond company is now live, however, it is accessible only internally, to Microsoft employees. Kumo is an integral part of the software giant's efforts to fuel t... |
3 March 2009
10:04 GMT |
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Apple has long accused Microsoft openly that it is copying its Mac OS X operating system with Windows releases. The Redmond company countered on the same note, indicating that there are features on OS X inspired by Windows. In this escalating face-off, Microsoft managed a new move over its rival in Cupertino. It para... |
20 February 2009
14:41 GMT |
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If you thought that the shuffling of services between MSN and Live, plus/minus Windows, was over think again. Microsoft is claiming that the transition was catalyzed by the necessity to “better align products and sites focused on content and community, QnA has moved from the Live Search organization into MSN.&r... |
19 February 2009
06:08 GMT |
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At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft applauded what it referred to as strong momentum for its family of Windows Live Mobile services. The Redmond company announced a variety of new partnerships and agreements at the event, all focused on Windows Live, with such companies as América Móvil... |
18 February 2009
09:50 GMT |
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Rivals Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have inked a partnership designed to help search engines deal with duplicate content. The Redmond company indicated that detecting and consolidating duplicate pages is one of the most problematic areas when it comes down to the website indexing process. Given the context in which a ... |
16 February 2009
05:54 GMT |
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Microsoft is moving forward with the evolution of its application programming interface for Live Search. In this regard, the Redmond company published this week Live Search version 2.0 Beta resources on MSDN providing developers with everything from general information to specific details such as protocols, SourceTyp... |
30 January 2009
11:25 GMT |
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Working to satisfy what it referred to as popular demand, the Live Search team has made available an officially supported add-on designed to integrate Live Search with Firefox. The Live Search add-in for the Mozilla open source browser is offered as a free download and was published on the Firefox add-ons repository.... |
30 January 2009
09:32 GMT |
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Microsoft has updated the Live QnA Code of Conduct, indicating that the changes introduced were necessary in order to make the resource easier to understand to users. In this regard, the QnA CoC now offers additional information on using multiple accounts, on dealing with mature content and introduces the Conversatio... |
30 January 2009
07:12 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering webmasters and website owners the possibility to remove content and URLs from the Live Search index. The Redmond company assures that it intends for its crawler to play nice with robots.txt files and inherently with the Robots Exclusion Protocol, in order to give content owners a high level of c... |
29 January 2009
07:33 GMT |
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At the start of 2009, Jeremy Beasley, product manager, Live Search mobile, revealed that Microsoft had updated Live Search Mobile for Windows Mobile. At that time, Beasley offered only a superficial perspective over just how the update managed to enhance end-user experience, but Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth tech ev... |
21 January 2009
05:42 GMT |
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In a move designed to bring its search service a step closer to what Google has to offer, Microsoft debuted Live Search News Alerts at the end of the past week. The new option available for Live Search allows users with a Windows Live ID to receive alerts via email for the news indexed by the Redmond company's s... |
19 January 2009
04:51 GMT |
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During the opening keynote address at the 2009 International Consumers Electronics Show (CES 2009) in Las Vegas, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announced a new partnership with Dell, focused on Windows Live. Ballmer indicated that the final Builds of Windows Live Essentials components (namely Wave 3)... |
9 January 2009
07:58 GMT |
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In the debut keynote address at the Consumers Electronics Show 2009 (CES 2009) in Las Vegas, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer revealed that the Redmond company had partnered with Verizon in a move focused on Live Search, an alliance that was announced in advance by Verizon Chief Executive Ivan Seidenbe... |
8 January 2009
06:04 GMT |
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At the end of the past year, Microsoft's search share took a heavy hit, according to statistics provided by Nielsen Online. On the search engine market, the Redmond company has continually seen its share deplete gradually, but the downward trajectory of Live Search took a steep plunge down just a couple of month... |
8 January 2009
05:08 GMT |
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While Microsoft is focusing on the organic evolution of its search engine, Live Search continues to lose ground to Google. With Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer trumpeting commitment to take down the Mountain View-search giant, the reality delivers an entirely different perspective on the market performance of L... |
22 December 2008
04:41 GMT |
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Microsoft has already admitted that it has a branding issue with Live Search, and in this regard the company's answer might just be Kumo. The software giant has not confirmed anything officially, but fact is that more and more Kumo-related moves are pointing to the imminent death of Live Search as a brand. In a ... |
15 December 2008
06:45 GMT |
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Microsoft is getting ready to introduce its latest move against Google, an overhauled boot for its search engine. While the Redmond company is laboring to reportedly scrap the Live Search brand in favor of Kumo, with a transition of leadership as Qi Lu takes on the new role of president of the Online Services Group, ... |
12 December 2008
05:05 GMT |
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A small presence on the global search engine market, behind Google and Yahoo, but also inferior in terms of share to localized services such as the Chinese Baidu, Microsoft's Live Search is already prepared to meet strong standards for data anonymisation. In this context, the Redmond company indicated at the sta... |
9 December 2008
09:47 GMT |
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For Black Friday Microsoft and HP partnered in order to offer customers discounts of up to 40% of all HP products acquired via the Live Search Cashback program. However, on November 28, the Cashback service was hit by a range of problems, from sluggishness to a complete blackout generated by the high volume of traffi... |
4 December 2008
07:25 GMT |
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Microsoft's commitment to offering end-users protection from malware does not stop with the promise of the free codename Morro antivirus planned for mid-2009. In this regard, the company has tweaked Live Search, enabling the search engine to prevent access to websites hosting malicious code. The addition of malw... |
4 December 2008
05:49 GMT |
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Microsoft is in no way done with attempting to buy queries and to bribe users away from rival search engines. Back in May 2008, the Redmond company, traveling a path others took before it, debuted a service designed to award users cash incentives for the products acquired after searches performed via Live Search. As ... |
2 December 2008
14:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has issued a public apology for the problems that affected its Live Search Cashback program on Black Friday. Customers attempting to take advantage of a range of discounts synonymous with the start of the 2009 holiday season were frustrated by glitches associated with Live Search Cashback. Not only was the ... |
2 December 2008
05:16 GMT |
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Global economic crisis or not, the debut of the 2008 holiday season shopping frenzy was celebrated with a range of discounts attracting an increased number of consumers. Online retail outlets made no exception to this rule, but in some scenarios preparation for a high influx of customers left to be desired. For the B... |
1 December 2008
08:09 GMT |
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Having long given up on an acquisition of Yahoo, the sole growth solution for Microsoft's search engine, short of a partnership with the Sunnyvale-based Internet giant's search division, remains an organic strategy. However, so far, everything that Microsoft has thrown at Google has had little to no impact ... |
27 November 2008
09:18 GMT |
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On the road to delivering the Project Silk Road vision, Microsoft managed to kick its Live Search Webmaster Center to the next level. The fall 2008 refresh to the Webmaster Center comes after the major August 2008 update, and is designed to deliver additional resources to web content owners. Microsoft emphasized that... |
26 November 2008
10:22 GMT |
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It remains to be seen whether rechristening Live Search will deliver a positive impact in terms of gathering and keeping fresh eyeballs, if it will just be a strategy with little repercussions in terms of market share, or if it will have just the opposite effect, and drive users away from Microsoft's search engi... |
24 November 2008
09:21 GMT |
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Microsoft is in the process of introducing Wave 3 of its Windows Live suite of applications and services. Live Search is, inherently, one of the Windows Live components impacted by the evolution, with enhancements reverberating across the search engine. In this context, over the past week, the Redmond company has int... |
17 November 2008
05:45 GMT |
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Microsoft has made available for download the new generation of its search engine application programing interface, at PubCon, Las Vegas. This was the stage where the software giant announced Live Search API version 2.0, released in a broad Beta. Aimed at website publishers and web developers, the new Live Search API... |
14 November 2008
10:31 GMT |
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