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Microsoft is applauding the success of its initiative to buy searchers and deter them away from rival search engines with financial incentives. Back in May 2008, the software giant introduced Live Search cashback, a program designed to provide customers shopping online with cash awards for their purchases, through Mi... |
14 November 2008
06:38 GMT |
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In the constant quest to increase its foothold on the operating system market Microsoft announced a marriage between the Live Search-powered MSN Toolbar and the Java Runtime Environment. The Redmond company inked a distribution deal with Sun Microsystems. Per the agreement, Sun Microsystems' Java Runtime Environ... |
10 November 2008
11:29 GMT |
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Defined by Microsoft as an experiment in search and social networking, U Rank is nothing more than a prototype for a search engine designed to deliver perfect results to user queries. This is possible through the search results customization options available to users in U Rank. Released as a developing project... |
10 October 2008
06:32 GMT |
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Microsoft continues to develop and introduce strategies designed to increase its share of the search engine market, and the latest initiative involving an evolution to the existing partnership with Facebook is by no means an exception from the trend. Following the launching of the SearchPerks program at the start of ... |
8 October 2008
05:42 GMT |
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The latest promotion built around Live Search cannot be accessed with Firefox or Opera. In fact, Microsoft has cut all third party browsers out of the equation, as only users of Internet Explorer, version 6.0 and above, will be able to sign up for SearchPerks. The latest initiative from the Redmond giant designed to ... |
1 October 2008
07:05 GMT |
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The first signs of the natural language evolution of Microsoft's Live Search are live. Having swallowed Powerset as of August 1, 2008, Microsoft moved forward with the integration of the natural language search company and its resources into Live Search. On September 17, the first three integration projects were... |
18 September 2008
05:46 GMT |
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After unveiling the upcoming release of a MySpace application for its BlackBerry smartphones, the Canada-based Research in Motion has also announced a new collaboration with the giant Microsoft, which will result in bringing the Redmond company's Live Search engine to BlackBerry handsets. Live Search will b... |
12 September 2008
03:34 GMT |
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On August 29, 2008, Microsoft announced the acquisition of European-based Greenfield Online and its subsidiary Ciao for $486 million. But while Ciao, with its over 26 million users per month will be integrated into Microsoft's European search and ecommerce services, the company has not been able to marry Greenfi... |
11 September 2008
06:51 GMT |
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Microsoft is experimenting with the Live Search home page in order to produce the perfect wallpaper recipe. At the end of July, the Redmond company introduced a face lift to Live Search as part of the service's march toward Windows Live Wave 3. The home page redesign was accompanied by inter-changing background ... |
1 September 2008
04:33 GMT |
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Microsoft has geared up its resources for the 2008 Olympic Games, and as the sporting celebration debuts today, August 8, 2008, a wide range of its software products and online services will parade content from the Beijing event. From MSN to Live Search, and from Windows Media Center, to the Xbox console, and to the ... |
8 August 2008
07:39 GMT |
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The final version of the Live Search Webmaster Center is now live, four months short of a year since the service debuted into Beta. Microsoft's focus with the Center was to provide a hotspot dedicated to the Search Engine Optimization tools and tasks associated with bridging websites with its search engine. Even... |
7 August 2008
06:46 GMT |
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At the end of May Microsoft introduced the Live Search Cashback initiative, in an effort to organically increase the market share of its search engine against Google. Paying end users for their searches was not by any means a new idea, and as far as the Redmond giant was concerned it had Jellyfish (which it acquired ... |
5 August 2008
04:39 GMT |
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Microsoft is constantly evolving the products and services under the Windows Live brand umbrella, and one of the main focuses of the company is, of course, Live Search. Chris Rayner, Senior Product Manager, and Zach Gutt, Senior Program Manager Live Search User Experience team, revealed that the redesigned Live Searc... |
31 July 2008
04:39 GMT |
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Microsoft is by no means shy of targeting specific consumer segments, and the Latino community in the United States is of a consistent enough size to attract the company's attention. MSN Latino Mobile is the latest initiative coming from the software giant aimed at making its MSN portal available to U.S.-based H... |
14 July 2008
11:34 GMT |
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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 numb... |
8 July 2008
11:38 GMT |
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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 ... |
2 July 2008
03:48 GMT |
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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 mis... |
17 June 2008
06:18 GMT |
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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 rea... |
6 June 2008
05:09 GMT |
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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... |
5 June 2008
05:25 GMT |
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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... |
2 June 2008
12:16 GMT |
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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 w... |
26 May 2008
07:36 GMT |
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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 ... |
26 May 2008
04:46 GMT |
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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 whic... |
23 May 2008
06:13 GMT |
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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 organical... |
22 May 2008
06:39 GMT |
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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 in... |
21 May 2008
06:06 GMT |
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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 c... |
16 May 2008
07:08 GMT |
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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 manage... |
7 May 2008
07:21 GMT |
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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 ... |
7 May 2008
03:58 GMT |
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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 oriented component after a pr... |
22 April 2008
06:05 GMT |
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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 last week. According to Nathan Buggi... |
21 April 2008
11:52 GMT |
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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... |
18 April 2008
07:32 GMT |
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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'... |
20 March 2008
04:06 GMT |
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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 searc... |
28 February 2008
05:14 GMT |
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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 ... |
28 February 2008
03:47 GMT |
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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. MS... |
13 February 2008
03:41 GMT |
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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 ... |
7 February 2008
07:15 GMT |
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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'... |
5 February 2008
03:18 GMT |
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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 Inte... |
1 February 2008
05:03 GMT |
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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, Ms. Dewey, powere... |
30 January 2008
04:04 GMT |
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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�... |
24 January 2008
04:01 GMT |
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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... |
23 January 2008
03:52 GMT |
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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-ba... |
21 January 2008
03:04 GMT |
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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 in... |
18 January 2008
07:45 GMT |
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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 le... |
16 January 2008
05:34 GMT |
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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. A... |
9 January 2008
02:53 GMT |
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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 introdu... |
28 December 2007
06:04 GMT |
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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... |
27 December 2007
06:28 GMT |
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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 se... |
27 December 2007
03:07 GMT |
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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 advertisin... |
14 December 2007
07:22 GMT |
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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, inc... |
14 December 2007
06:05 GMT |
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