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Microsoft announced that they are temporarily ending search and give website beginning June 1st, 2009. According to Search and Give website they are going to release similar program in coming months. Search and Give users continue earning money for the charity or school of their choice.
The Search And Give site says it has donated more than $536,000 since September 2007.
Microsoft has added a really cool feature in Live search, allowing users to search flight status on live.com, so there is no need to go to some other website just looking for the flight status, Live.com will show the complete details about the flight.
I tried to search flight status for British Airways flight BA10 on Live.com and Google.com and results are as follows.
Microsoft is keep updating their MSN toolbar and now this time they have added Live search cash back detector in MSN toolbar. MSN toolbar search is powered by Live Search. The MSN Toolbar (http://toolbar.msn.com) contains a cashback–offer-detecting mechanism. This means that wherever you search online — whether it’s Yahoo, Live, Google or Craigslist — the toolbar will gleam an icon if there is cashback available for the item you searched for. It never fails, and when you click the gleam it brings you to the page where the cash back offer is available.
Search is becoming an integral part of every computer users who uses internet on daily basis. Microsoft Live Search blog has released a list of top How to searches done by Live Search website. The Most popular how to search queries are as follows
Microsoft Live Search team is working very hard to add more and more new features to Live search for end users as well as for webmaster and web site owners. Live Search has added one more feature that will help webmasters to have a greater control over their web pages how Live Search will index them. To remove web page from Live Search index Microsoft Live Search team says webmaster can add a meta tag exclusion within the <head> tag at the top of your HTML page for example:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex"/>
Once the page is recrawled, the page will no longer be linked to in the SERP.
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Microsoft has recently released Live Search auto suggestions add-on for Firefox browser. The Live search auto suggestion add-on give users to auto suggestion when they start tying in Firefox search bar. he list of suggestions refreshes as you continue typing or when you change the query. You can click the suggestion that best matches what you were searching for to speed you to your results. The add-on is available in the following markets: Australia (AU), Canada (CA), India (IN), Ireland (IE), New Zealand (NZ), Philippines (PH), South Africa (ZA), United Kingdom (UK), and United States (US).
Firefox users can download and install Live Search Auto Suggestion Add-on for Firefox browser from Mozilla Add-on website.
Microsoft has finally decided to mark Malicious websites in “Live Search” search results. According to Microsoft Live Search blog: Our primary goal is to protect you from a potentially harmful page. You can still decide to risk it and visit the page, but we strongly urge against it and recommend always following our security guide.
Recently Microsoft announced Project Silk Road to delivering broad suite of tools and API’s to developers. Microsoft released two new updates for webmaster : (1) The ability to detect malware on your site and the sites you link to. (2) A simplified authentication process that makes accessing our tools much easier. These two updates will help webmaster to protect their websites from Malware and offer a better performance for Live Search.
Microsoft is working very hard to promote it’s Live Search across the globe to compete with Search leader Google. Recently Microsoft has started a contest in Canada called as “Big Ticket” to promote Live search in Canada.
Microsoft has launched it’s latest version of Live Search API 2.0 at PubCon 2008. Microsoft is calling this project named as “Project Silk Road”. Project Silk Road allows developers to serve their search results in the rank and format that they choose . Developers can use JSON, SOAP, or XML formats to get their results and format according to their requirements. For doing all these developers need to have the AppID.
Live Search services codenamed "Silk Road"
Silk Road is Live Search’s new set of search APIs (version 2.0 beta) and services for developers. With Silk Road, you can build applications without restrictions around presentation. Getting started is simple: decide what search content you want, choose from JSON, SOAP, or XML output, and then customize them according to your needs to build your own search application. All you need to get going is an AppID.
Developer can access content from Encarta, related search queries, and a set of tools — like an Excel add-in that tracks keyword performance. Currently Silk Road Project is in broad beta stage and Microsoft is inviting a good number of web publishers and developers to use Live Search API 2.0 and give feedback to Microsoft.
Key Features of Live Search API 2.0
Note: The application and review process for participation includes criteria for site quality and traffic volume. Chosen sites must meet Microsoft Editorial Guidelines for publishers and fit within our top strategic verticals. Sites also must have enough traffic to enable them to dedicate a reasonable number of web impressions to the program.
Apply For Live Search API 2.0 Program
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