History:
The first public beta of Live Search was unveiled on March 8, 2006, with the final release on September 11, 2006 replacing MSN Search.
On March 21, 2007, it was announced that Microsoft would separate its Live Search developments from the Windows Live services family. Live Search was integrated into the Live Search and Ad Platform headed by Satya Nadella, part of Microsoft's Platform and Systems division. As part of this change, Live Search was consolidated with Microsoft adCenter.
In the roll-over from MSN Search to Live Search, Microsoft stopped using Picsearch as their image search provider and started performing their own image search, fueled by their own internal image search algorithms.
Search products:
| Service | Website | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Academic | http://academic.live.com | Live Search Academic searches for academic journals and published papers. This service has been discontinued and integrated into regular web search. |
| Books | http://books.live.com | Live Search Books searches for written content that has been made available on the Internet. This service has been discontinued and integrated into regular web search. |
| Classifieds | http://expo.live.com | Windows Live Expo lets users to search for classifieds from an online social marketplace featuring user-created adverts. |
| Farecast | http://farecast.live.com | Live Search Farecast searches for airfare and hotel reservations online and predicts when is the best time to purchase them |
| Feeds | http://search.live.com/feeds | Live Search Feeds searches for RSS feeds based on the user's search query. |
| Health | http://health.live.com | Live Search Health refine health searches using related medical concepts to get relevant health information and allow users navigate complex medical topics with inline article results from experts. |
| Images | http://images.live.com | Live Search Images offers an intuitive user interface where users can adjust the size images found in a results page and create their own "scratchpad" to collect images for later reference. Users can also continue scrolling for images without having to switch between multiple pages of results and can continue to search after they have selected an image. |
| Local | http://maps.live.com/localsearch | Live Search Local searches local business listings with business details and reviews, allowing users to make more informed decisions |
| Macros | http://search.live.com/macros | Live Search Macros allows consumers to create their own custom search engines or use customizations created by other users who share their interests to make their searches more relevant |
| Maps | http://maps.live.com | Live Search Maps enables the user to search for businesses, addresses, landmarks and street names worldwide, and can select from a road-map style view, a satellite view or a hybrid of the two. Also available are "bird's-eye" images for many cities worldwide, and 3D Maps which include virtual 3D navigation and to-scale terrain and 3D buildings. |
| News | http://news.live.com | Live Search News is a news aggregator and provides news results relevant to the search query from a wide range of online news and information services. |
| Products | http://products.live.com | Live Search Products lets users search from a wide range of online suppliers and marketer's merchandise for all types of products and goods. |
| QnA | http://qna.live.com | Live Search QnA lets users to search from a database of questions and answers, and at the same time allow users to post their questions online on to the site where the public can answer them. |
| Video | http://video.live.com | Live Search Video allows the user to search for video content from many different sources on the Internet. See also Soapbox on MSN Video |
| xRank | http://xrank.live.com | Live Search xRank lets users to search for celebrities, musicians, politicians and bloggers, read short biographies and news about them, and track their trends or popularity rankings. |
Webmaster services
Live Search allow webmasters to manage the web crawling status of their own websites through Live Search Webmaster Center. Additionally, users may also submit contents to Live Search via the following methods:
- Live Search Local Listing Center allow businesses to add business listings onto Live Search Maps and Live Search Local
- Live Product Upload allow merchants to upload products information onto Live Product Search
- Live Search Books Publisher Program allow book publishers to upload information onto Live Search Books
- Soapbox on MSN Video allow users to upload videos for searching via Live Search Video
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