Filed under: Microsoft, Search
Microsoft revamps Live search
- Increased the site index by more than 400%
- Improved understanding of query intent
- Auto-spell correction
- Faster page-loads
- Uses more click-stream data to improve page ranking and relevancy
- Improved answers to questions about specific items like weather, images, celebrities, entertainment, maps, or sports
Apparently 40 percent of the searches on Live.com involve entertainment, shopping, health, and local search, so Microsoft has focused heavily on these four areas.
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ChrisR said 12:32PM on 9-27-2007
I think they did a nice job. Looks more and more like the Google results page.
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AvgJoe said 5:58PM on 9-27-2007
They definitely seem to have done a very good job - much much better from what they were
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josh said 8:54AM on 9-28-2007
The new images section is really awesome.
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