MSN Search and Windows Desktop Search Tips & Tricks
Brandon Paddock and Andy Edmonds (Windows Desktop Search team) have sent the word to let us know they're both hosting a 1-hour MSDN Webcast at 1pm (Pacific time, 9PM GMT) today.
They'll be discussing tips, tricks, and hacks for MSN Search and for Windows Desktop Search.
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9.12.2005 Windows Vista Search Kills Google Search
Has Microsoft finally gained the upper hand over Google with the launch of Windows Vista? Is this the last we will see of Google search, as the Redmond Company's latest operating system
will be increasingly adopted eroding the market supremacy of Windows XP?
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18.2.2007 Two Unofficial IE Patches Block Attacks
eWeek reports that two well-respected Internet security companies (eEye and Determina) have released unofficial patches to correct the vulnerability being exploited to load spyware, bots and Trojan downloaders on Windows machines.
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29.3.2006 Microsoft is not trying to block access says Kaspersky
Microsoft's new operating system Vista will not make it more difficult for anti-virus systems to work, Russian computer security group and potential IPO candidate Kaspersky Lab said on Friday, contradicting rivals.
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9.10.2006 MySpace to 'block sex offenders'
Social networking website MySpace says it will release tools to identify and ban US sex offenders from its service.
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7.12.2006 Microsoft: ‘Very difficult’ to block IE attack vector
A member of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team says it is “very difficult” to put protections in place to block the protocol handlers attack vector exposed by the recent IE-to-Firefox code execution vulnerability.
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22.7.2007 Windows Service Pack Blocker Tool Kit - Block Vista SP2 Automatic Upgrades
Microsoft is offering Windows Vista SP1 users the chance to block automatic upgrades to Service Pack 2. In addition to making available Vista SP2 RTM as a standalone download, DVD ISO image, the bits are also released to Windows Update, and subsequently served to Vista SP1 users who have Automatic Updates enabled.
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3.7.2009 Tafiti Search Visualization - Silverlight + Live Search API
What is Tafiti? It is a search visualization website which brings a new user experience to researching (searching and storing results). The source code for www.tafiti.com is available!
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19.12.2007 Anti-Spam Sites Block Microsoft Hosted Exchange Services
Microsoft's Exchange hosted mail services, designed to help businesses combat spam, have themselves been blocked by several anti-spam blacklists around the Web, CRN has learned.
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31.12.2006 Windows Update Blocker Tool Kit - Block Automatic Windows Vista SP2 Update
After availability of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 for public download I am sure many users would have already installed Vista Service Pack 2 to see the performance improvements and its advisable to install Windows Vista sp2 as it has many noticeable changes and also includes all the fixes released after Vista sp1.
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27.5.2009 Rapidshare Search Engines to Search, Find and Download Files from RapidShare
Since 2nd of July, RapidShare has removed its download limits and captchas for free user. This means that we can continue downloading files from rapidshare without waiting for an hour when we’ve just downloaded a file.
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15.7.2008 Coders, Search For Code With Google Code Search
Search engines for searching code bases is nothing new, but this time Google did it with
Google Code Search.
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5.10.2006 Windows 7: Federated Search
In part one of our overview of Windows 7, we look into Federated Search.
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6.1.2009 Windows Live to get Product Search
After posting about Windows Live Academic Search last week, yet another new search product has entered our radar. This time it's Windows Live Product Search, and like its cousins Image Search and Feed Search, it too will be integrated into the standard Windows Live Search service.
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11.4.2006 Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Beta 2
The search engine in WDS 3.0 is a Microsoft Windows service that is also used by programs such as Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Office OneNote 2007.
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23.8.2006 Windows Desktop Search 3.01
Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.01 is a minor update to Windows Desktop Search 3.0 that adds: support for indexing UNC files, additional support for enterprise deployment, and stability improvements.
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20.2.2007 Windows Live Search 2.0 is Coming!!
As reported by LiveSide, and Softpedia News, Microsoft is holding a three-hour “Searchification” event at its Silicon Valley campus on September 26 that seems like it will be the launch pad for the next version of Microsoft’s Live Search service.
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11.9.2007 Windows Search 4.0 Preview (KB940157)
WS4 lets you perform an instant search of your computer. WS4 helps you find and preview documents, e-mail messages, music files, photos, and other items on the computer.
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29.3.2008 Windows 7: Explorer Search overview
Over the next few weeks we will be adding many more focus items on Windows 7 including Touch, Windows 7 networking and media enhancements. Stay tuned for the ultimate Windows 7 focus from Neowin.net. Here is an overview of the explorer search features.
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15.1.2009 Windows 7 Search for Data Anywhere It Lives
Windows 7 has long evolved past its precursor, Windows Vista. One key aspect of this evolution is the operating system's ability to stretch Windows Explorer well beyond the limitations of a local machine, or even a local network.
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24.3.2009 Microsoft Shows Off New 'Windows Live Search'
Microsoft has released a preview version of what will eventually become the flagship search engine for the Redmond Washington based software giant. Windows Live Search is the cornerstone of Microsoft's new "Live" campaign, which aims to unite all the companies? web services under a single banner.
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8.3.2006 Windows Vista Advanced search techniques
Windows Vista and Windows Desktop Search 3.01 recognize many advanced query operators that can make your desktop searches super-pinpointed. This document provides an exhaustive list of those operators.
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11.5.2007 Microsoft to Collaborate for Windows Live Book Search
Windows Live Books Publisher Program enables publishers to easily submit content for inclusion in the Windows Live Book Search index.
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9.6.2006 Ways to Search for Files and Documents in Windows Vista
Searching in Windows Vista has taken a great change, improvement and enhancement in Windows Vista, and integrated into Windows Vista new and improved file and data management that Microsoft called Windows Vista’s new information visualization, organization, and search features.
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15.12.2006 Windows Live Search Head to Leave Microsoft
The Windows Live brain drain continues as news sources are reporting that Windows Live Search vice president Christopher Payne will be stepping down shortly.
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8.3.2007 Windows Search 4.0 (KB940157) Final Release Version
New search engine for Windows operating system, Windows Search 4.0 has been released as complete final RTM version.
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9.6.2008 Microsoft rersponds to Google on search box in Windows Vista
The search box in IE7 is not Microsoft?s. It belongs to the user. Our guiding principle for the search box in IE7 is that the user is in control. Read on for details.
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2.5.2006 Disable and Turn Off Windows Vista Search Indexer and Indexing Service
Windows Vista has greatly enhanced its search algorithm where the search process is now not only faster, but users can also easily search for almost all kind of files, documents, pictures, videos, emails and contacts in Outlook 2007, and even commands or application programs’ executables.
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19.9.2007 Windows Search 4.0 Pushed - Automatically to Vista SP1, but Not to XP SP3
Microsoft plans to debut serving Windows Search 4.0 automatically to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 by the end of July.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 Search Performance – Superior to Vista SP1 and XP SP3
Get ready for the Windows 7 indexer on steroids, as Microsoft will deliver the first taste of the operating system to the world at the end of this month.
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14.10.2008MySpace Puts Search on Auction
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News Corp. said Tuesday that
it plans to call for bids from
search giants Microsoft, Yahoo
and Google to provide Internet
search functionality and
search-based advertising on
the popular social networking
site...
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14.06.2006Murdoch could block Google searches
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has said in an interview with Sky News Australia that newspapers within his empire - including the Sun, Times and Wall
Street Journal - could block Google searches entirely once they had enacted plans to charge people for reading their stories on the web. In the last
few months, Murdoch has got into a war of words with Google, accusing the search giant of "kleptomania" and being a "parasite" for including bits
of articles from Murdoch's news websites in its free Google News service. According to the Guardian, when Murdoch was asked why they hadn't
simply opted to remove their websites from Google's search indexes, he said it is on the cards.
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09.11.2009TorrentSpy, ISOHunt to Begin Search Filtering
Two major torrent sites have
announced plans to start
filtering their search results
in an effort to block
copyrighted content, and to
avoid the need to shut down
their services...
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27.06.2007Windows 7: Federated Search
In part one of our overview of Windows 7, we look into Federated Search: Windows Vista included the enhanced desktop search feature which helps users
to readily locate files, e-mail messages, and other items on their PC . With the release of Windows Search 4.0, the performance of the search tool
improved while adding much-needed manageability features for IT. Windows 7 along with the desktop search, introduces Federated Search in which the
scope of the search goes beyond your PC. You can now search for items in remote repositories from your PC. It is based on OpenSearch and the RSS
format.
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06.01.2009Apple's block-all firewall not as advertised
The Cupertino company has admitted that a setting in its firewall application in Mac OS X Leopard to "block all incoming connections" isn't
exactly true...
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16.11.2007BitTorrent site sues for IFPI compensation over block
The Pirate Bay has asked a Dutch court to order music industry group IFPI for monetary compensation for a block placed on it by ISP Tele2...
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17.04.2008Windows Live Search to Replace
MSN
Windows Live Search will be
brought out of beta this
summer, Microsoft has said.
The change would put the site
as the company's flagship
search engine, replacing MSN
Search and marking the
official beginning of a
transition to the Windows Live
branding...
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05.05.2006Verizon users can now block numbers, track down children
Whether for screening out irate ex-spouses or persistent telemarketers, a new feature announced by Verizon Wireless today enables customers to block
communications with specific phone numbers...
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19.08.2008Windows Server 2008 DNS Block Feature
Windows Server 2008 introduces a DNS block feature that may affect the ISA Server automatic discovery when implementing the WPAD mechanism using a
Windows Server 2008 DNS Server.
The block feature provides a global query block list to reduce vulnerability associated with
dynamic DNS updates. Dynamic update makes it possible for DNS client computers to register and dynamically update their resource records with a DNS
server whenever a client changes its network address or host name. This reduces the need for manual administration of zone records, especially for
clients that frequently move or change locations and use DHCP to obtain an IP address. This convenience comes at a cost, however, because an
authorized client can register any unused host name, even a host name that might have special significance for certain applications. This can allow a
malicious user to "hijack" a special name and divert certain types of network traffic to that user's computer. WPAD is a commonly deployed protocol
vulnerable to this type of hijacking, and by default WPAD look up is disabled by the blocking mechanism.
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19.02.2008Study: IE8's SmartScreen leads in malware protection
A recently released NSS Labs study, claims that Internet Explorer 8 greatly outperforms competing browsers in terms of protecting users against web
based malware. According to the study based upon a sample of 492 URLs, not only is IE8's SmartScreen Filter achieving a leading position against
the rest of the popular browsers, but also, it also outperforms them in terms of the average time it takes to block known and already tested malicious
sites. Here's how the study ranks the browsers:Microsoft Internet Explorer v8 (RC1) achieved 69% block rate Mozilla Firefox v3.07 achieved just
over 30% block rate Apple Safari v3 achieved 24% block rate Google Chrome 1.0.154 achieved 16% block rate Opera 9.64 achieved 5% block rate
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26.03.2009Windows Search 4.0 Now Available
Windows Search 4.0 lets you perform an instant search of your computer. Windows Search 4.0 helps you find and preview documents, e-mail messages,
music files, photos, and other items on the computer.
The search engine in Windows Search 4.0 is a Microsoft Windows service
that is also used by programs such as Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Office OneNote 2007. You can use this search engine to index a
program's content and to obtain instant results when you search in a particular program.
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04.06.2008Microsoft Debuts Windows Live
Search
Microsoft early Wednesday took
the wraps off an improved
Live.com homepage complete
with a beta of Windows Live
Search, the successor to MSN
Search. The Redmond company
expects the new site to
seriously challenge Google's
dominance in the search
market...
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08.03.2006FCC: D Block bidders driven away by prospects of high lease fees, penalties
It should have been a fairy tale come true for an entrepreneurial wireless provider with top-notch leadership. But the FCC's D Block option kept
Frontline Wireless out of the picture; and today, an FCC report points the blame at no one...
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29.04.2008Amazon Web services to get persistent storage
The Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon's block-level persistent storage service for its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) has come out of beta, offering
more security for databases in the event of instance failures...
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21.08.2008A Look Inside Windows Live
Search
Late yesterday, Microsoft
dropped the "beta"
term from Windows Live Search,
officially launching the
search engine as a 1.0
service. Missing is some of
the glitz that characterized
its earlier releases from back
in November, but can the
simplified Live Search better
compete with Google?..
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12.09.2006Google Aims to Block Malicious
Sites
Google officially launched a
feature Friday that will alert
users of its search engine
when they visit a site
suspected of distributing
badware. The service is a
partnership between Google and
StopBadware.org...
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05.08.2006FCC 700 MHz 'C-block' reserve price finally met
In what will certainly come as relief to advocates of open access rules for wireless services, someone this morning placed a bid for the
jewel-in-the-crown "C-block" of spectrum just above the minimum reserve trigger price...
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31.01.2008Facebook Privacy Questioned
Facebook users who like to
control who gets to see your
account details, take note:
political views, religious
back ground and other
sensitive details may be wide
open to prying eyes even
though you've configured your
profile so its viewable only
to designated friends.
That's because the user
setting that allows only
designated friends to view a
user's profile has no effect
on whether the contents of
that profile can be searched
by the Facebook community at
large. Users who want to block
their profiles from being
searched must go through an
additional step.
It's hard to imagine why
someone would want to block
strangers from reading their
profile and at the same time
opt to have their profile
contents searchable by any
Facebook user. And it's even
harder to understand why
Facebook search by default
indexes profile contents,
rather than the other way
around...
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28.06.2007New York's Cuomo deals with ISPs to block child porn
Andrew Cuomo, New York's high-profile Attorney General, announced yesterday his office has made agreements with Verizon, Time Warner Cable, and
Sprint to block child pornography newsgroups and known sites...
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11.06.2008GoDaddy Petitions to Block
.com Deal
Domain name registrar
GoDaddy.com said Monday that
it had filed a petition with
the Department of Commerce to
block an agreement between
ICANN and VeriSign. The
company said it wanted the
deal sent back to the
Internet's governing body to
ensure fairer terms on the
stewardship of the .com
top-level domain...
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