Type: Search Engine
URL:
Live Search
Commercial: yes
Registration: optional
Available language(s): multilingual
Owner: Microsoft
Created by: Microsoft
Launched: March 8, 2006 (beta), September 11, 2006 (1.0), 2007-09-26 (2.0)
Current status: active
Live Search (formerly Windows Live Search and MSN Search) is the name of Microsoft's web search engine, designed to compete with the industry leaders Google and Yahoo!. Live Search is accessible through Microsoft's Live.com and MSN.com web portal.
The new search engine offers some innovative features, such as the ability to view additional search results on the same web page (instead of needing to click through to subsequent search result pages) and the ability to dynamically adjust the amount of information displayed for each search-result (i.e. just the title, a short summary, or a longer summary). It also allows the user to save searches and see them updated automatically on Live.com.