Get ready for SES 2008 A quick note about my upcoming keynote at the Search Engine Strategies conference, Tuesday, August 19th at 9:00 am in San Jose. Kevin Ryan and the entire SES organization put on one of the best search

186 views read more 2008-08-15 01:13:00

Working with Advanced Queries in the Live Search Box So, now that you’ve (a) provisioned a Live Search Box for your site, and (b) updated it with a cool look and feel, you are finally ready to build the search query of your dreams. Back in the old day

185 views read more 2006-10-31 15:45:00

Wikipedia gets big Check it out: We realize that often you just need to get a sense of what your query is about. Wikipedia is great for that — you can learn enough from the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article

180 views read more 2008-05-30 06:55:00

Live Search Books Beta Release Several new enhancements of note from the Search team: Tomorrow we’re releasing the beta version of Live Search Books (http://books.live.com). Check out the user experience: very clean! With this in

179 views read more 2006-12-05 20:13:00

Something's different at Live Search! Whew, what a busy couple of weeks it's been. We launched our new home page back at the end of July with the goal of using a new picture each week. Then we decided to get a little crazy for the Ol

176 views read more 2008-08-29 16:15:00

Live Search @ SES San Jose For those of you attending the Search Engine Strategies Conference in San Jose, CA this week, drop by and check us out at one of these sessions: Search Engine Q&A On Links – Day 3 at 4:45pm (8/2

175 views read more 2007-08-20 15:58:00

Our New Webmaster Portal and an Invitation to the Private Beta Shortly after that day in March when we had to take the “link:” operator offline, a small team was formed in Redmond. Its singular focus: to build the next-generation set of tools, content and res

175 views read more 2007-08-22 18:56:00

Improve your site's standing with new Webmaster tools Today we are bringing our Webmaster Tools out of beta and releasing several new features that help webmasters see how Live Search crawls and indexes your sites. As a website owner, you can use these t

170 views read more 2008-08-06 12:35:00

New home page helps you explore more on the Web Today we're releasing an update to the Live Search home page that received positive feedback from customers in trials last month. The new design features background images that will change frequently,

163 views read more 2008-07-30 06:00:00

More than a pretty face Along with the release of our new search experience, we'd like to give some background into the design team and process that went into all the changes you see. You might not immediately think of desig

159 views read more 2008-05-06 05:40:00