Live Search Books: Now with In-Copyright Content Today we're delighted to announce the availability of in-copyright book content in the Beta version of Live Search Books! For hundreds of years books have been the repositories for the world’s mos

637 views read more 2007-06-01 05:08:00

How we learned to find zune.net As 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

498 views read more 2007-11-08 17:31:00

3 New Updates to Live Search Mobile On 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

437 views read more 2007-10-19 01:32:00

Live Product Search: More Images, More Relevant The team just released changes to Live Product Search that boost customer-perceived relevance by increasing the number of query results with images.  The table below summarizes the improvement.&

422 views read more 2007-04-24 12:04:00

Webmaster Tools: Open for Business This 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 anno

413 views read more 2007-11-15 17:34:00

Search robots in disguise There are plenty of bots out there and, as a result, some conventions have arisen.  Well-behaved bots identify themselves with a unique user-agent.  They also follow the robots.txt conventio

386 views read more 2006-11-29 13:37:00

You talk. We listen. In our last release of Live Search for Windows Mobile we snuck in a little feature that allows users to send feedback directly to the engineering team. Since then, we've received tons of messages from

370 views read more 2008-05-15 08:05:00

Drive for show, Putt for Dough - 10 Reasons to Love the New Live Search Maps Software 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 b

364 views read more 2007-10-29 10:53:00

Tafiti Search Visualization (Silverlight + Live Search API) Source Code available The 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 original

349 views read more 2007-12-18 12:34:00

Summarizing user reviews for computers and electronics Users 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

347 views read more 2007-11-12 13:52:00