Bing it on: Microsoft overhauls search, again

Microsoft Corp. is rolling out a redesigned search site in the coming days and hopes it will lure more Web surfers than the two most recent incarnations, Live Search and MSN Search.

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What's in a name like Kumo?

Microsoft Corp. has said marketing teams were hard at work fixing the company's Web search image. As a brand, Live Search wasn't working.

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Microsoft signs search distribution deal with HP

In a bid to boost its Web search traffic, Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced a deal that will make its Live Search the default on Hewlett-Packard Co. personal computers shipped in the U.S. and Canada, starting in January.

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For the meantime at least, it appears that Microsoft is the one gaining from its search deal with Yahoo! Microsoft's share price has risen just over 1.41% to $23.80 per share, adding $2.94 billion to their market cap.

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Bing Enters Alexa's Top 500 Global Sites - With a Twist

Microsoft's recently revamped search engine, Bing, has entered Alexa's Top 500 Global Sites at Number 5 - as Windows Live.

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Microsoft is hoping an $80 million to $100 million ad campaign can get you to try its search engine over Google's. Will it work?

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Microsoft last week registered a limited liability company (LLC) in Delaware stoking speculation that it is planning an acquisition or joint venture. If true Microsoft may be planning a little bit more than a demo of its search engine and a big ad campaign to promote it.

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Microsoft quietly registered a limited liability company (LLC) last week, which points to the company being poised to make an acquisition or joint venture.

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Many Live Search users are aware that they can track the status of flights with Live Search, but did you know that you can also use it to convert currencies, perform mathematical calculations and equations - try typing in 4y + 2y=8 into Google and see what comes up.

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Can Microsoft market its way out of the search basement? Probably not, but it's going to try, entrusting roster agency JWT to craft a campaign for its new search engine, alternately dubbed Kumo or Project Kiev or Live Search, depending on who's talking about it.

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Microsoft launched its first major update to Live Search Webmaster Tools since November, adding crawl issue feedback, backlink data, improved filtering, and the ability to export data in CSV format to Excel for offline analysis.

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In a bid to compete with Google, Microsoft are launching a cashback scheme on it's search engine Live Search. Under the scheme Live Search users will get cashback on products they buy through signed up retailers in the form of advertising-funded cash rebates.

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Microsoft has officially announced its plans to offer "ad-funded cash rebates" to customers using Live Search to find and purchase products.

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With its three-month pursuit of Yahoo at an end, Microsoft is back where it started: far behind Google, the undisputed online-advertising leader.

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When you see a document riddled with typos and spelling errors, you may come to think of its author as sloppy or even stupid, but you'll still be able to understand him. 

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A detailed Tmobile Wing review.

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In a rare bit of good news for Microsoft on the search front, web metrics firm comScore reported that for the month of March, Microsoft's search engines saw their first market share increase in nearly a year.

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A look at some potential ideas on making it easier for blogs to link to other blogs instead of news sites.

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Microsoft uses their new Live Search to let Internet Users donate to charity... simply by searching.

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Today, we're proud to announce the launch of the Live Search Box, to bring the power of search to your Web site or blog through a cool widget. When the user enters a query, the search box dynamically builds a floating on your page to display the search results.

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Echoing earlier deals with Yahoo and Google, Nokia, the world's largest mobile handset maker, has said it will integrate Microsoft's Live search into its mobile search offering. Here's more from Reuters.

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Microsoft will provide China Telecom's 25 million broadband customers with a web search, 'Live Search' service, in an agreement reached yesterday.

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core.ac is updated.

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