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About to click “buy it now” in eBay? Wait! Before you do so, did you know that if you do a search on Live.com that results in a sponsored link click-through to eBay, you can get 25% off the item you purchase if it’s a Buy-it-now auction? To get this deal, just go to www.live.com and do a web…

The Live Search team has just updated their xRank site’s special U.S. election feature with new information. Now, xRank Politician includes all the candidates running for president, governor, and congress. On the site, you can compare the search trends for opposing candidates to see who’s being…

In case you hadn’t heard, Live Search has just now been integrated into one of the biggest social networks in the world: Facebook. As Facebook announced on their blog, this is the “first step in giving you the ability to find content from across the web while using Facebook.” What this means is…

To complement Live Search Cashback, the program that pays shoppers to search for products using live.com, there now comes another incentives program from the Live Search team: Live Search Perks. With this new program, available in the U.S. only, you simply download a program to your computer which…

Sometimes, when a bigger company acquires a smaller one, it’s the end of innovation for the little guy as they slowly fade into non-existence. That was definitely NOT the case with the Microsoft Powerset acquistion. According to this post on the Powerset blog, the Live Search team and the Powerset…

Microsoft and Research in Motion (RIM), makers of Blackberry smartphones, have just announced a deal that will make Live Search even easier to use on Blackberry devices. Already available as a software download, Live Search will now be found directly within the Blackberry’s built-in web browser as…

Over on the Digital Inspiration site, Amit Agarwal discovered some lesser-known features in Live Search that are unique to the search engine. These little gems are worth checking out - click here to review them in more detail on his site. The four tips he came across include: Watch Video Previews –…

With the 2008 Beijing Olympics now underway, a lot of people are infected with Olympic Fever. There seems to be million ways to watch the Olympics this year and keep up with the news. We’ve highlighted some of these ways already, including the Silverlight-powered NBCOlympics website, Olympics on…

Live Search Cashback, the program from Live Search that pays you to surf, has just launched a program called “Back to School Deal Days.” With this new program, which will only run for a limited time during the month of August, you can get extra cashback savings from Live Search cashback. As you…

In case you hadn’t noticed, the homepage at Live.com recently got a refresh. The new homepage now features a scenic background (see image at left for an example) which includes areas called “hotspots.” These hotspots are interactive, hyperlinked parts of the image that help you to explore searches…