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 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 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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14.10.2008 MSN Search Spoof
MSN Search celebrates April Fool's with the return of Spoof, the parody tool that uses fake (but hilariously accurate) search results to gently mock friends, bosses, or people who just need to be teased.
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2.4.2006 MSN search down for hours
According to Infoworld Microsoft's MSN search engine suffered an hours-long outage yesterday as results turned to errors.
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7.4.2006 Microsoft looks for better way to search the Net
Internet searching was at the forefront of the technologies that Microsoft displayed on Tuesday at an event intended to showcase the company's research prowess.
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7.3.2007 Microsoft: Use our search and we'll pay you
Microsoft is offering to pay corporations if they get their employees to use Live Search at work, the company confirmed on Friday.
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17.3.2007 Who uses MS Live Search?
". . . it’s mostly people that are searching for files on their own hard drive who accidentally click the ’search the net’ button."
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3.4.2008 Microsofts new search...Yahoo?
Microsoft quietly registered a limited liability company (LLC) last week, which points to the company being poised to make an acquisition or joint venture.
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27.5.2009 MSN Search Toolbar with Antiphishing
MSN Search Toolbar includes Windows Desktop Search, so you can find anything on your PC - documents, e-mail messages. And three handy toolbars make it easy to search the Web or your PC, block annoying pop-up windows, automatically fill out web forms.
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Windows 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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06.01.2009Windows 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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05.05.2006Windows 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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08.03.2006A 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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12.09.2006Windows Desktop Search Loses
Toolbar
At the IT Forum in Barcelona
Tuesday, Microsoft took the
wraps off a version of Windows
Desktop Search without the MSN
Toolbar, which is designed
specially for deployment in
businesses. The application
replaces Windows' paltry
built-in search functionality
and can be integrated with
Office and SharePoint...
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15.11.2005New search site - Imagine Live Search
A new Live Search site
was brought to our attention
recently (thanks Jamie),
http://search.imagine-liv
e.com/. What's obviously
different is the sparse
homepage, notably the lack of
vertical search options, which
directs the users focus to the
search box and nothing
else.
Diving
in further, search results are
different too. There are no
vertical search options
present under the search box,
however they appear in the
right hand column with
suggested results
pre-populated. Users can see
the results from these other
search options alongside the
main web search results,
allowing users to quickly
refine their query as they
become more aware of what each
search option offers them.
While the related
searches option is already
present on the main Live
Search site, the addition of
Image Search and News Search
is a nice touch. The great
part is that Windows Live Maps
is embedded, auto-detecting
your location and presenting
local search results based on
your query. ..
winbeta.org - 18.05.2007
Windows Search 4.0 vs. Google Desktop 5.5
Brad Linder: Microsoft released an updated version of Windows
Search, its free desktop search client the other day. And while there are dozens of excellent desktop search clients, including a few good free
ones, it seems inevitable that people are going to compare Windows Search to Google Desktop. Because you know, any time either company releases
something kind of cool someones assumes that it's just a ripoff of a product offered by the other. Or Apple.
Anyway, we've been
using Windows Search for the past few days and we thought we'd let you know how it stacks up against Google Desktop. Read on for the results.
winbeta.org - 30.03.2008
Live Search autosuggestions come to Firefox
The Live Search team today announced that they have officially integrated Live Search into Firefox by popular demand. Microsoft has released a Firefox
addon to get to your results faster via Microsoft Live Search auto suggestions. The addon is available for download here. The addon is based on the
Open Search standard and uses the JSON interface supported by Firefox to retrieve autosuggestions. Microsoft has been integrating Open Search into
their products recently - the most recent one being the Federated Search in Windows 7. Open Search has also been implemented in Internet Explorer 7(&
above) and SharePoint Search.
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neowin.net - 30.01.2009
Microsoft Wants More Search Share
In an effort to win back some
search market share from
rivals Google and Yahoo,
Microsoft on Friday kicked off
a nationwide advertising
campaign designed to spread
the word about the recently
launched Windows Live Search.
Photos: View the
Windows Live Search ad..
betanews.com - 27.10.2006
Windows 7 supports search plugins
When Vista was released, its search features were significantly better than XP's. It's time to take a look at what Microsoft is planning to do for
search for Windows 7; according to information Microsoft has released to developers, search in Windows 7 can go beyond a local network:
"Windows 7 supports searching for documents beyond the user's own PC. Developers and IT professionals can enable their search engines, document
repositories, web applications, and proprietary data stores to be searched from Windows 7 without needing to write and deploy client code. This
enables end users to search their corporate intranet or the web as easily as they can search for their local files—all from within the same familiar
Windows interface."
Furthermore, developers can add Windows 7 compatible OpenSearch support to any existing searchable web application
by adding RSS or ATOM output (the desktop client can then have a Search Connector for the service). SharePoint Search Server can also query these
compatible OpenSearch services (as shown at PDC 2008).
jcxp.net - 30.11.2008
Microsoft Uses Silverlight to Spiff Up Search
Microsoft has unveiled a application that combines its Silverlight technology with Windows Live Search, code-named "Tafiti." The name means
"to search" in Swahili. It integrates the various types of Live Search, and allows users to store and share search results by placing them on
"shelves."..
betanews.com - 22.08.2007
Amazon Drops Google for
Windows Live
Online retailer Amazon.com has
dropped Google as its search
result provider and selected
Microsoft's new Windows Live
Search instead. The change
affects both Amazon's A9.com
search engine and the
company's Alexa toolbar and
Web site...
betanews.com - 01.05.2006
Microsoft prepares to auto-deliver Windows Search 4.0 to Vista users
If you notice your hard drive crunching later this month while performing a menial task, fear not: it's just the new Windows Search software creating
an index of your files. Microsoft plans to automatically deliver version 4.0 of the software, formerly Windows Desktop Search, to Vista users...
betanews.com - 22.07.2008
Yahoo Unveils 'Build Your
Own' Search
Yahoo on Monday released a
Search Builder tool for
creating customized search
engines based on a select
group of Web sites or specific
search parameters. The new
service is designed to compete
with personal search upstarts
including Eurekster and
Rollyo...
betanews.com - 09.08.2006
Preview of new Windows Search adds cross-PC indexing
A typical lexical search engine creates a single, indexed repository of addressable content, which can get pretty cumbersome to search through unless
your name is "Google." Now, Microsoft is shedding a little more light on an alternative...
betanews.com - 29.03.2008
Windows 7: Find and Organize Part 2 - Building Federated Search applications
In Part 1, you saw the user experience of
finding and organizing your files in Windows 7.
In Part 2, David Washington and Brandon Paddock show how developers can build
federated search applications that enable you to easily search your organization's intranet or the Web and integrate those search results directly
into Windows Explorer.
The best part is that instead of needing to install software on Windows 7 to get new search providers, you
simply run an XML configuration file to add a search provider to your machine!
winbeta.org - 05.11.2008
Google Mobile App now available on Windows Phones
Google has launched its Google Mobile App for Windows Phones. Google Mobile App for Windows Mobile include Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, Picasa
Web Albums and Google Sync Beta, with instant access to Google Search and all of these products accessed from one place. Windows Mobile users can now
use Google Mobile App instead of using a browser to do Google Search. Google promises to get search results for identical queries nearly 50% faster
from Google Mobile App than from navigating to Google webpage in your mobile browser.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 19.02.2009
Windows Live Desktop Apps
Renamed
In order to lessen some
confusion surrounding its
Windows Live Web services and
desktop applications,
Microsoft has opted to rename
two of its products. The
Windows Live Search
application, formerly known as
OneView, will now be called
Windows Live Search Center...
betanews.com - 13.07.2006
Windows Search 4.0 Released
The final version of Windows Search 4.0 has been released to the Microsoft Download Center. Windows Search 4.0 updates search in Windows Vista,
Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Home Server. This release comes after a public Windows Search 4.0 Preview, which was
a success thanks to great community participation - with around 300,000 downloads. Since the Preview was released, a number of quality improvements
have been made to the product based on feedback provided by the community.
jcxp.net - 04.06.2008
