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Live Search Team Announces Significant Updates, Also Changes User Agent to “msnbot/1.1″

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Fabrice Canel, part of the Live Search Crawling Team, announced on Tuesday (February 12, 2008) significant updates to the Live Search Engine crawler, MSNBot. The updates significantly improve the efficiency with which they crawl and index websites. The two biggest updates were improvements with HTTP Compression and Conditional Get. We support conditional get as defined by RFC 2616 (Section 14.25), generally we will not download the page unless it has changed since the last time we crawled it. As per the standard, our crawler will include the “If-Modified-Since” header & time of last download in the GET request and when available, ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/115/live-search-team-announces-significant-updates-and-changes-user-agent-to-msnbot11

Microsoft Looks to Upset the Search Engine Balance with Offer to Buy Yahoo!

Friday, February 1st, 2008
Microsoft has a history of either arriving too early or too late to the party. In the case of search engines, they were too late. However, Microsoft has a not-so-secret weapon — money! Regardless of when they get to the party, they often times simply end up buying it, including the crappy band playing at the party. Such is the case with Microsoft’s new unsolicited bid to buy Yahoo!. Microsoft is offering $44.6 billion in cash and stock for search engine operator Yahoo Inc. in a move to boost its competitive edge in the online services market. This offer comes on ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/104/microsoft-looks-to-upset-the-search-engine-balance-with-offer-to-buy-yahoo

4 Reasons to Give Live Search Another Try

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Many people tend to give a negative stigma to anything that Microsoft works on. Because of Microsoft’s PC dominance and business practices, just about everything that comes out of Redmond is reviewed with a fine tooth comb and equally criticized. In fact, the general consensus seems to be that anything Microsoft creates — especially products and services for the Internet — have an uphill battle to fight. Live Search is no exception. The overall perception among the SEO community has been that Microsoft hasn’t taken their search engine strategy seriously enough and that it’s traditionally been a search engine that’s easily ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/73/4-reasons-to-give-live-search-another-try

Live Search Is Returning Google AdWords Ads In Their Natural Search Results (Updated)

Thursday, December 20th, 2007
Update: Nathan Buggia, Lead Program Manager at Live Search, contacted me to let me know they’ve fixed the problem. Here’s what happened, in their own words. Live Search is offering a new way for AdWords customers to get click-throughs — their own natural SERPs. They appear to be indexing AdWords ads from Google’s own SERPs. Doing a search on Live for colorations paint (at the time of this writing) will give you AdWords ads in the third and fourth natural result. I can only assume this is unintentional and is simply a bug in their crawler. Regardless, it’s a little ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/53/live-search-is-returning-google-adwords-ads-in-their-natural-search-results

Search Diving on “Live” for Fun, Amusement and Mild Pleasure

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
What’s the least likely place you would go to find something? Your old girlfriend’s apartment? A landfill? Utah? Actually, it’s not any of those. The least likely place you would go is obviously page 87 of Live Search. Which of course is why you should go there. So let’s get right to it. I will choose a random keyword phrase, and by random, I mean the first thing that pops into my head. pink earmuffs. Oh wow, that’s embarrassing, but search I must. Huh, I found a website called Feministing. So what’s this feministing all about? Young women are rarely given the opportunity ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/50/search-diving-on-live-for-fun-amusement-and-mild-pleasure

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