Windows Live Search

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Windows Live Search is the name of Microsoft's web search engine, successor to MSN Search, designed to compete with the industry leaders Google and Yahoo!. The public beta of Windows Live Search was unveiled on March 8, 2006, the final release happened on September 11, 2006. Windows Live Search is accessible through Microsoft's Windows Live web portal at www.live.com. On February 21, 2005, Microsoft entered an agreement with Picsearch to supply Image Search for the Windows Live 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 (similar to Google Personalized Search).

Since May 1 2006, Windows Live Search has been providing the search results for Amazon's A9 search service and the experimental Ms. Dewey interactive search site.