Filed under: Internet, E-mail, Microsoft
Filed under: Microsoft, Search
Filed under: Business, Internet, Blogging, Web services, Microsoft, Search
Filed under: Video, Web services, Microsoft
Yesterday Microsoft announced the addition of video search to Windows Live.com Search, the currently-in-beta successor to MSN Search. The results are clean and uncluttered and the index seems to be pretty robust. Each result shows a thumbnail image and the video's title, length, and a short description where available. It pulls results from many sites, including big-media sites like ABC and Comedy Central as well as the new generation of social sites like YouTube and Grouper. Beyond that, there's little to report, but it does serve as a nice complement to Live.com's existing web and image search offerings.
[Via Don Dodge]
Filed under: Web services, Google, Microsoft
Search Engine Lowdown is reporting that Amazon appears
to be dumping Google
in favor of partnerships with Microsoft. In particular, Amazon's A9 search engine now draws results from
Microsoft's Live.com, and Amazon subsidiary Alexa is doing the same. A9 and Alexa search results now sport a
"Powered by Windows Live" badge. I'm most surprised by the A9 switch, since it has been powered by Google
since its debut two years ago. There has been no official release from Amazon concerning the switch.
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