Windows Live Search fails to set world on fire

[mandy]

In an attempt to gain a more significant portion of the search market, earlier this year Microsoft launched its revamped MSN Search engine, under the Windows Live Search name. In November the company followed up with a rather large online marketing campaign. Despite its efforts, however, a search-share rankings report for November, just released by Nielsen/NetRatings, shows that Google is still ahead of the pack with a 49.5 percent share. Coming in third behind Yahoo! Search is MSN/Windows Live with 8.2 percent...

Features of Microsoft's Live offering include queries for specific categories such as photos, shopping, academics, feeds, music, news and classifieds. There is also a "safe search" to filter out sexually explicit content. Most of the new search services can be found as links from the menu at Live.com...

Since its debut in the fall, Microsoft added some key features to Live search, including Search Macros that provide results that are more relevant for a given topic. Search Macros first appeared on MSN Search and have been updated and included in Live. The Macros basically enable you to create customized sets of search engine rules. On Live, as a basic Search Macro, you can enter up to 30 URLs to search for results...

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