Windows Live Search

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Windows Live Search
Windows Live Search homepage
Developer:	Microsoft
Use:	Search Engine
License:	Freeware
Website:	http://search.live.com

Windows Live Search, or Live Search, is the name of Microsoft's web search engine, successor to MSN Search, designed to compete with the industry leaders Google and Yahoo!. The public beta of Windows Live Search was unveiled on March 8, 2006, with the final release on September 11, 2006. Windows Live Search is accessible through Microsoft's Windows Live web portal at www.live.com. On February 21, 2005, Microsoft entered into an agreement with Picsearch to supply Image Search for the Windows Live web portal.

The new search engine offers some innovative features, such as the ability to view additional search results on the same web page (instead of needing to click through to subsequent search result pages) and the ability to dynamically adjust the amount of information displayed for each search-result (i.e. just the title, a short summary, or a longer summary). It also allows the user to save searches and see them updated automatically on live.com.

Contents 1 Search products 2 Tie-ins and Promotions 3 References 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Search products

In addition to its tool for searching webpages, Windows Live Search also provides services for searching:

• Academic
• Books
• Classifieds
• Feeds
• Image
• Macros
• Maps
• News
• Products
• QnA
• Videos

Windows Live Search Mobile allow search results to be displayed onto a mobile device. Windows Live Product Upload and Windows Live Publisher allow users to upload and publish their own contents to the search index and allow merchants and book publishers to search for them via Windows Live Search Products and Windows Live Search Books.

Microsoft also develops and operates other search tools and services including Windows Desktop Search.

There are also many Windows Live services available that are not directly search-related. Windows Live Hotmail, for example, is a webmail application, but still include search features.

[edit] Tie-ins and Promotions

Since May 1, 2006, Windows Live Search has been providing the search results for Amazon's A9 search service and the experimental Ms. Dewey interactive search site.

On January 17, 2007, Microsoft announced that all searches done from a special portal site would lead to a donation to the UNHCR's organization for refugee children, ninemillion.org. The amount to be donated is not readily available on Microsoft's sites, but Reuters AlertNet reports that the amount to be donated is $0.01 per search, with a minimum of $100,000 and a maximum of $250,000 (equivalent to 250 million searches).

[edit] References

• Microsoft Unveils Live Search- Softpedia
• Microsoft Donates to Ninemillion.org - Reuters AlertNet

[edit] See also

• Windows Live
• Ms. Dewey

[edit] External links

• Windows Live Search