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If you visit Viveri today, you’ll only see a placeholder with an “under construction” sign, but come later this summer this website will become Microsoft’s testing bed for experimental search technologies. Some of the features launched on Viveri will make their way into Live Search, but which ones…

If you’re a user of the experimental Firefox add-on called Ubiquity, then you’ll want to go check out the new command available from Powerset for performing Live Search queries. In case you don’t know,Ubiquity lets you interact with your browser using a command-line interface and natural…

The Live Search Mobile Team recently released an update for their Live Search Mobile application for Windows Mobile. The new version adds several additional browser and client features to the program, making it better than ever before. One of the most helpful new features is predictive query…

After reviewing the ups and downs of 2008, Mike Fridgen, the Director of Product Management at Farecast, released his predictions for travel in 2009. Mainly, Mike identified three main factors that will affect airfare pricing: consumer demand, oil prices, and capacity cuts. Because of the economy,…

The Live Search team just announced the addition of a new feature to Live Image Search: the ability to find related images. When you hover your cursor over one of the images in the Live search results, you’ll see a new option called “Show Similar Images.” Click on that and you’ll see a new set of…

There's more to Live Search (www.live.com) than meets the eye... kind of like those magical robots that transform into cars and fighter jets... what are they called again....? I digress...Alexandra Mickel from the Live Search team dropped by the Channel 10 studios the other day to show us…

Doing some holiday shopping online? As you may know, you can save some dough using Live Search Cashback, but now you can get that cash back even faster. How fast? Instantly! According to the Live Search team blog, the new instant cashback feature will be made available for some Live Search users…

Well that’s handy! Jamie pointed out a feature of the new Windows Live Hotmail (Wave 3) that you may have not have heard about before. The feature is called “Quick Add” and it allows you to easily insert web content in your email message from a bar that appears on the right side of your screen.  In…

Did you notice the changes over on Live Search’s video site last week? Now you have more tools than ever to find your favorite TV shows, music videos, and other online videos. You can browse through the TV Shows page and drill down into the content by selecting a genre like Comedy, Drama, Reality,…

The Live Search team has just launched a new search promotion to encourage people to use Live Search. Dubbed “Big Ticket Search,” this promo is a contest that will run from October 31st through December 31st. Every time you perform a search at bigticketsearch.com, you have a chance to win prizes…