Search is a Love Problem I first had the idea for this post a few years ago, when Google’s April Fool’s Day prank was to define love as a search problem and talked about how Google Romance was going to find you the person

237 views read more 2007-04-24 12:23:00

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

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

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

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

xTreme movers I get a little more excited than most people about data, but I think even "normal" people will have fun with the new xTreme movers feature in xRank, which lets you track the searches that are gaining

228 views read more 2008-10-17 15:49:00

Webmaster tools now sniffing for malware Last week we announced Project Silk Road, our vision for delivering a broad suite of products and services for publishers and web developers, including a customizable Live Search API, rich content, mu

228 views read more 2008-11-25 06:10:00

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

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

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

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

Fly over the river and through the woods with Farecast Last week we covered how you can use instant answers to find deals on travel. This week we'll show you how to save on last-minute flights for Thanksgiving weekend.   Have a great holiday trip! J

221 views read more 2008-11-24 17:11:00

Live Search Powerset team at Web 3.0 The Live Search Powerset team will be presenting next week at Web 3.0 in Santa Clara on October 16-17. Scott Prevost, Powerset general manager, is providing Friday's keynote on The Road to Semantic Se

219 views read more 2008-10-08 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

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