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• Live Search new Home Page is here to stay

  Seems like every time the new-look Live Search Home Page was tested, we happened to be online and caught it, but now the new look is here to stay.  If you don’t already see it at www.live.com you will soon. The new look started appearing last... Posted May 06 2008, 05:15 PM by Kip Kniskern with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Live Search

• Minor Spaces update, and more from Windows Live blogs

  The Space Craft, blog of the Windows Live Spaces team, just announced a minor upgrade to Spaces: you can now include the Messenger IM control and SkyDrive files in the Custom HTML module using embed codes.  Some back end changes have been made to... Posted May 02 2008, 05:50 PM by Kip Kniskern with | with no comments Filed under: MSN, Mobile, Windows Live Product Search, QnA, Live Search, Windows Live Search for Mobile

• Live Search changes: QnA joins in

  Update: Looks like qna.live.com is joining the party, with a new look, too, this one in keeping with the green and blue theme (thanks, AndyD): We’re noticing some other changes, as well, although they seem to come and go. See anything new? Let us know... Posted Apr 29 2008, 08:59 PM by Kip Kniskern with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: QnA, Live Search

• New look for Live Search: It’s baaacckkkk!

  We spotted a new look Live Search homepage about 11 days ago, and now it looks like the new page is back , at least for the moment: Right now going from the new page to any of the links results in a hodge-podge of styles and themes, including broken personalized... Posted Apr 29 2008, 08:16 PM by Kip Kniskern with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Live Search

• Live Search - Shop and search on the go

  Ever seen this cool product in a store and wished you could do a price comparison, read reviews on the product or see how it's rated on the spot? The Live Search Mobile team lets us know the following: We've just released the latest updates to... Posted Apr 29 2008, 02:27 PM by Sunshine with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Mobile, Live Search

• Club Live skews search share analysis (again); Compete.com adjusts their numbers

  While this news isn’t hot off the presses, we didn’t want to let it slip by.  In a blog post on last Wednesday, Compete.com admits to getting “bitten by the Club Live bug”.  Club Live is a marketing tool/set of games... Posted Apr 27 2008, 06:31 PM by Kip Kniskern with | with no comments Filed under: Live Search

• Live Search News – now with RSS

  Ever wanted to stay up to date on a specific news category or news search? You can now, the News Search Team added RSS to Live News Search .   If it doesn't look as above, take a look at our previous article on the New Live News Search . Posted Apr 25 2008, 01:22 PM by Sunshine with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Live Search

• The new Live Search Products is here!

  Following an extremely long period of inactivity (in fact, the team blog 's last post was back in April 2007), Live Search Products has finally been updated along with the latest wave of Live Search releases . We've always thought that product... Posted Apr 22 2008, 03:19 AM by damaster with | with no comments Filed under: Live Search

• New search.live.com homepage

  New elements of Live Search continue to roll out, the latest at http://search.live.com . After an email notification this afternoon regarding a new page at my.live.com (which doesn’t seem to be live yet), where the personalized pages first started by... Posted Apr 18 2008, 08:49 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Live Search

• New Live Search News site spotted, testing Rome again?

  This evening, for a little while, the Live Search News Site looked completely different from what we are used to. This is what we normally see: We spotted it like this earlier:   Notice how it shows articles now instead of just links. Breaking news from MSNBC has also found it's way into the new look, sure caught my eye! And that's not all, on the page there are also today's top news videos which you can preview in the same page by holding your cursor on it. This is something it holds over the competitor Google News, which looks like this... Posted Apr 16 2008, 12:53 AM by Sunshine with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Live Search

• New Compete.com search share numbers show surprising surge for Live Search

  Compete.com released their version of March US search market share numbers on Friday , showing a surprising surge for Live Search, up nearly 4 percentage points from February (a notoriously slow, and short, month), and up .7% year over year. In addition... Posted Apr 05 2008, 07:49 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Google, Live Search

• comScore US Search share numbers: Microsoft continues to spin wheels

  The US search share numbers are out for February from comScore, and the bottom line is that its more of the same for Microsoft and Live Search.  US search share and Microsoft stock seem to share a lot in common, lots of hype and rhetoric about how... Posted Mar 20 2008, 06:42 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with no comments Filed under: Live Search, ComScore

• New Live Search SDK released

  Thanks to ActiveWin for finding this , a new Live Search SDK (version 1.1b, 3/15/08) with samples for Visual Studio 2005 is up and ready for download.  According to the download page: The Live Search SDK provides documentation that describes the... Posted Mar 18 2008, 12:05 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Live Search, SDK

• Microsoft continues on/off public testing of new Live Search update (Rome)

  A few days ago Kip posted about a temporary update to Live Search , with the new thin UI. Well the new version is back for the moment, so I thought I'd take the chance to highlight it again in case you missed it the first time round. Those of you... Posted Mar 15 2008, 12:26 PM by Chris with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Search, Live Search, Featured

• New look for Live Search? Has Rome arrived?

  UPDATE #2: Looks like this must have been just a test, as the new UI isn't available anymore. Since it only worked in IE7, and not IE8 or Firefox, probably a good indication that there's still work left to do. Looks like LiveSide member Quikboy... Posted Mar 12 2008, 06:25 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Live Search