According to a news by a Seattle-focused Web site “TechFlash, Brad Goldberg,
general manager for Live Search, has joined the the list of other executives to quit the company as he will head up the online business at an investment-firm Peak 6 very soon.

According to Cnet news, a Microsoft representative came out with the following statement:

Is Live Search going for a new update?
Discussion on at the WebmasterWorld of a possible Microsoft update to Live Search.

Just have a look as to what senior member, bwnbwn, has to say on the issue:

It looks to me that there are 2 data centers the serps and they are rotating in and out. One data center is presenting much better serps the other may be a way microsoft is working on the bot and is throwing the spammy one.

The Live Search has come up with an entirely new search engine crawler that is named as msnbot/2.0b

According to The Live Search Blog,

“You’ll still see the current version msnbot/1.1 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) as Live Search’s primary user agent. We intend to ensure that any robots exclusion protocol you are using is respected. As such, you don’t need to update your Robots.txt file. We plan on crawling at a slow speed during the tests with the updated version.”

For all those webmasters who think that automated link exchange is one of the best ways to build traffic and get popularity, then probably the time has come where you all need to learn something from the latest post of the Live Search Webmaster Center Blog that is openly discouraging this exercise!

Microsoft's Live Search has now announced that they will now take action against the sites which they deem questionable in terms of malware. As a result, the main link has been disabled and the visitors can only visit the site in question by clicking a special link in the warning box.

After a Black Friday blackout, Live Search is giving clarifications about the glitch and has also come up with a new update: Instant Cashback.

Cashback was not working for more thanthree hours last Friday and Live Search explained as to why all this happened:

A significant spike in traffic caused the system to go down for several hours on Friday

Features like continuous scroll and index with millions of website, makes a single image search query enough to get what you were actually looking for. At times, these initial results end up giving you a hint of what is available and you have to make your search more refined to find out the images actually needed. Live Search now provides you ease to use images rather than looking for additional keyword queries to discover more refined search results.

The Live Search team has come out with a lot of new features for the Webmaster Center. So if by any how, you are using this Microsoft service aside from Google Webmaster Central, then you would surely like these new additions. If not, then read on as you might like it and start using the Webmaster Center from now on.

Last May when I covered the Microsoft Live Search Cashback program, I never expected that it would show positive traction in all three of the key metrics! But after their official announcement, it has been confirmed, that the Microsoft Live Search cashback is showing positive results. Above all, the company has made an announcement that 20 of the top 50 online retailers in the U.S. as well as 140 of Internet Retailer’s Top 500 are now engaged in the whole participating process.

Microsoft India has come with the launch of Live Search Maps! The feature provides a detailed analysis of listings as well as street maps for nine cities, listing for business aspect across 29 cities and access to highway networks to 20,000 cities and towns in India.