Live Search News
100 Billion Searches A Month And Still None The Wiser
3rd September 2009
A study of the global search market undertaken by comScore recently found that over 113 billion searches were carried out online in July 2009. More »
Bing Drives SEM Expenditure On Microsoft adCenter
28th July 2009
Early indicators show that Microsoft’s new decision engine ‘Bing’ is indeed helping Microsoft to establish a better position in the Search Engine Market. More »
Microsoft Creates A New Decision Engine
29th May 2009
Microsoft is planning to make some major changes in the way search results are provided to their users. In fact, they are planning to launch a conceptually new ‘Decision Engine’ that could revolutionise the way users think about search. More »
Konnichiwa Microsft Kumo
9th March 2009
Microsoft has started internal testing of the upgraded version of their search engine, Live Search. This new incarnation of Live Search has been codenamed Kumo. More »
US Search Engine Market Share Data – Jan 2009
25th February 2009
According to the latest qSearch analysis of the major U.S. search engines carried out by comScore, search continues to grow and little has changed in terms of market share of the top 5 search providers. More »
More Ads Above Organic Results On Live Search
10th February 2009
Live Search results used to have three mainline ad positions above the organic results in the past. This has now been increased to four mainline ad positions on the search engine results pages in the U.K, which means some users will not see any organic results without scrolling. More »
Live Search On Dell PCs And Verizon Mobile Phones
12th January 2009
During his keynote address at the International Consumer Electronics Show 2009 last week, Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, made some exciting new announcements about Microsoft Live Search. To begin with, Ballmer said that Microsoft has entered into a 3-year agreement with Dell. More »
Microsoft Rolls Out Improved Windows Live Portal
5th December 2008
Two weeks ago, Microsoft announced that they would be making substantial changes to Windows Live. These changes have now been made and it looks as though Windows Live is likely to replace MSN as Microsoft’s mainstay. More »
Microsoft Live Search Now On Facebook
10th October 2008
Microsoft made an investment of $240 million in Facebook, almost exactly one year ago. Facebook and Microsoft Live Search have now launched their first joint application. More »
Live Search Maps Tries To Turn The Heat On Google
3rd October 2008
The Virtual Earth team at Microsoft has updated their platform and also added some interesting and useful new features to it in an attempt to improve the Live Search Maps offering and make it more competitive with Google Maps. More »
Google Has The Best Maps
2nd October 2008
According to the results of a survey conducted by analysts, Cowen & Co., which were released on Monday, Google Maps has left its competitors far behind in the race. More »
Live Search Comes To Facebook
25th July 2008
Microsoft and Facebook have reportedly come to an agreement and signed a deal that will bring Microsoft’s Live Search and Advertising operations to Facebook. More »
Live Search Cashback Now On eBay
24th June 2008
Only last month Microsoft Live Search had announced “cashback” programme for its customers. They have now tied up with eBay to offer this facility to their customers. More »
Microsoft Search Offers Cash For Search, Again
23rd May 2008
Microsoft has decided to leave no stone unturned in the race to improve its position in the search marketing field. During the company’s annual digital ad conference, on Wednesday, it was announced that Microsoft would pay cash to U.S.-based customers for shopping on the new Live Search Cashback site. More »
Microsoft News Search Gets A Facelift
21st April 2008
At last some news from Microsoft that has nothing to do with acquiring Yahoo! The Live Search team at Microsoft announced that they have made several modifications to their News Search format. Now the information will be categorized into separate sub headings and the news results page has also been given a facelift. More »
Microsoft Opens Messenger Friends To Social Networks
1st April 2008
Microsoft announced last week that it has partnered with the most popular social networks including Bebo, Hi5, Facebook, LinkedIn and Tagged to allow its users to easily move contacts in both directions, while protecting the user’s privacy. More »
Yahoo! Plays Catch Up On Social Networks And Mobile
10th January 2008
Google’s done it, Facebook’s done it, even Nokia did it so why wouldn’t Yahoo!? Well, now they have come up with yet another social networking idea, this time dubbed Yahoo! Life! and an improved mobile service. Where has the innovation, the spark of ingenuity that once was Yahoo! gone? More »
Microsoft Bid to Acquire Fast Search and Transfer
9th January 2008
It looks as though Microsoft is bent on proving at least some of Steve Ballmer’s predictions for the future to be true. They have recently made an offer to buy Norwegian company Fast Search and Transfer. More »
Live Search Webmaster Tools Beta Not A Big Success
20th November 2007
Microsoft was the last of the big three search engines to provide webmasters with a special resource where they could submit their site and browse information about the site crawl and search statistics that are not available to the general public. More »
Yahoo! UK Becoming A Distant Second
2nd November 2007
Hitwise data for September 2007 shows that Yahoo! served only 4.91 per cent of all Internet searches in the UK, Microsoft served 3.95 per cent and Ask.com got 3.55 per cent. There is only one clear leader in the UK search market, and its lead is growing by the day. More »
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