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Revamped MSN Search Goes Live
News The revamped MSN Search remains a front end for technology provided by Yahoo, offering mainly a facelift aimed to make it look more like Google. The new MSN Search features fewer clearly marked sponsored ads.
[July 1, 2004, 9:20]
Windows Live Search About To Go Live
News Windows Live Search page, which uses the same behind-the-scenes technology as MSN Search but will eventually become the company's sole search offering. In the future there will be one search experience — when we come out of beta (with Windows Live...
[March 8, 2006, 14:55]
Microsoft Unveils Product Search
News The company also said this week that it plans to bring its Windows Live Search engine out of beta this summer, meaning that Windows Live will replace MSN Search as the company's flagship search engine.
[May 5, 2006, 9:10]
Windows Live Finds Its Feet
News In general, people who are mail users and Messenger users are also very likely to be MSN users, and they're likely to use Live Search. So, the direct economics for things such as mail and instant messaging haven't really changed with the shift from...
[November 7, 2007, 16:31]
Microsoft Launches Mapping Beta
News The new service also enables users to create customised maps by adding user-created pushpins, as well as annotate maps and share maps and local search information with others via email by posting them as blogs on MSN Spaces or through MSN Messenger.
[December 8, 2005, 9:25]
Gates: We'll Keep Google Honest
News Earlier in the day, MSN executives showed off some of the work the company is doing in search as well as in Windows Live services. With its annual MSN Strategic Account Summit, which runs through Thursday, Microsoft is both trying to hone its pitch...
[May 4, 2006, 8:55]
Microsoft's Search Guru Talks Strategy
News In fact, we've really focused, even with this release we'll be very, very focused on basically having the Live search experience power MSN, and that's a fairly explicit strategy of ours, if you will, because we feel that that's the place where we...
[September 28, 2007, 16:33]
Microsoft Prepares To Take On YouTube
News Bennett also showed off a "visualiser" video search tool for MSN Video's existing licensed content that lets people search for and browse video by seeing relationships between tagged items. Soapbox on MSN Video, codenamed Warhol, will eventually be...
[September 19, 2006, 8:35]
Microsoft Ready To Spend, But On What?
News Many of MSN's existing services, such as Messenger and Hotmail, are being refitted with the Windows Live banner. Not all the money is going into Windows Live and MSN. Also on tap should be a clearer explanation of where Microsoft is headed with MSN...
[May 3, 2006, 16:15]
MSN Toolbar
Downloads Plus constant Live Search box, search within MSN channels. Introducing the new MSN Toolbar. Find out what's going on in news, entertainment, or sports without leaving the web page you're on.
[June 7, 2008, 12:35]
A Search Oddity
Blog Search for Firefox from www.msn.com (or Live Search) All of the results in www.msn.com are fake sites - places designed to snag the unwary in their search for their 'Fox fix and place them in Garish Adland (or worse).
[May 10, 2007, 17:02]
Fastlane
Downloads Access Windows Live/MSN Messenger from one click. Search with Bricks search powered by Windows Live. You can: Surf the Net 2000x faster than Internet Explorer. Use Google images at school. Its Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer 2-in-1.
[September 25, 2006, 18:46]
Bandy - The Bookmark Manager
Downloads Bandy also includes a free translation tool and MSN Live Search. Get rid of messy bookmark lists! Easy to use, your Bandy Manager helps you organize, manage and research your favorites websites and folders with just a few clicks.
[November 8, 2007, 19:46]
Beholder
Downloads And thanks to Beholder's web site scanning engine, you can power your searches and crawl for images on any source page or home directory.Version 2.1.1 supports MSN Live search. Beholder queries Internet search engines and quickly arranges their...
[September 22, 2006, 5:01]
Blueeee
Downloads Fun, fast, and easy to use, Blueeee utilizes Bluetooth technology to search for friends online and chat with them exactly the same way as you would do with MSN/Windows Live Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo, or AIM.
[September 25, 2007, 13:46]
Microsoft Bares VoIP Ambitions
News The software giant already offers free video communications powered by Logitech and PC-to-PC VoIP capabilities via MSN Messenger, as well as one-way PC-to-phone calling capabilities in select markets via
[March 17, 2006, 8:45]
Search Engines Of The 1990s
Articles Before Live.com was MSN Search. Search was always more of a sideline for MSN, rather than a central feature. The new kid on the search-engine block is Cuil, but search engines have been around as long as the internet.
[August 4, 2008, 17:14]
Subscription-based Outlook Piloted
News Outlook Live, which the company began testing last week, is similar to the Outlook Connector feature Microsoft currently includes as part of its MSN Premium service, which costs $9.95 a month. The Outlook Connector feature was added when Microsoft...
[December 14, 2004, 8:15]
Google Wannabes Search For Success
News Signaling the widespread acceptance of the model, Microsoft's MSN and AOL Time Warner's Netscape are licensing search technology from paid-listing services. But the practice has come under fire by consumer-advocacy group Commercial Alert, which...
[August 28, 2001, 15:25]
Google Under Pressure Over Desktop Search
News Yahoo and Ask Jeeves are planning similar releases while Microsoft announced the availability of an MSN branded desktop search tool this week. The Web portal introduced its MSN Toolbar Suite in a beta version on Monday.
[December 14, 2004, 15:50]
