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Article: Microsoft's Live Search Gets a Major Overhaul; The update improves the core search technology and brings advances in vertical search areas.
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- eWeek
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- September 27, 2007
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Microsoft's Live Search Gets a Major Overhaul
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Microsoft is releasing a major update to its Live Search offering that will improve its core search technology and bring advances in vertical search areas, changes the company believes now make its search relevance at least as good as that of Google's and better than Yahoo's.
"In 2005, when we started, we were way behind both Google and Yahoo. We did move the needle in 2006, and we were happy with that, but, at the same time, Google and Yahoo also continued to improve," Satya Nadella, corporate vice president of Microsoft's search and advertising platform group, said at a media event at its campus here Sept. 26.
But, with ...