MSN Live Search
Live Search’s link: operator turned back on!
Friday, January 25th, 2008MSN removed the option to check on inbound links a while back. My colleague and I stumbled upon the fact that the MSN link operator is back at work. Now, it’s not the typical link operator or as easy as Google, but we’ll take anything.
It took several scenarios to get the results we were looking [...]
Microsoft: Will They Ever Stop?
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008Microsoft is once again trying to buy up some of the Search Marketing Real Estate. According to an Article by Steve Lohr in the New York Times, Microsoft is bidding $1.2 billion to buy a Norwegian Search Engine Firm, Fast Search and Transfer.
Here is a little back ground on FAST. Fast is an Enterprise Search [...]
“Not So Fast MSN,” Says Yahoo!
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007I recently posted “How Good Will It Be?” about MSN doing some major updates to their Live Search functionality. This week Jason Lee at WebProNews wrote an article, Yahoo Makes The Assist, Web 2.0-ifies Results, discussing how Yahoo is now doing the same thing MSN is doing. Yahoo is now offering bring in a new [...]
How Good Will It Be?
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007A recent Article at ZDNet News by Ina Fried, “Microsoft leaks its own search plans” pointed out that Microsoft plans on unveiling it changes to Live Search. The blog was leaked by program manager Akram Hussein:
In a blog posting on Thursday, Windows Live program manager Akram Hussein demonstrated how the revamped Live Search handles searches [...]
