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Live Search cashback “exponentially growing”: 5M pageviews and 10k purchases every day

cashbacklogo Live Search cashback hasn’t publically shared many numbers that we’ve seen, so these numbers kind of jumped off the screen when we noticed them in a Tweet.  Clicking through to the article, the numbers weren’t attributed, but it wasn’t …

Some more on those MSNbot complaints

Yesterday the Live Search Webmaster blog posted on how to send feedback on MSNbot behavior, which Sunshine reported.  While it doesn’t go into details about what kind of complaints might be registered, apparently lately there are plenty.

We’re not …

MSN to launch new homepage option; testing topic focused homepages

MSN.com has just launched a new home page option, this one focused on Entertainment, and is kicking off a new phase of topic-focused homepage testing.

From the MSN Home page, you should see an option on the left hand …

Microsoft pubCenter beta goes public

Microsoft pubCenter, an ad publishing tool (think Google Adsense) from Microsoft Advertising, after existing as a private beta for a number of months, goes into public beta today, April 22.

Kevin McCabe, Senior Product Manager for pubCenter beta, will be …

Sifting through Trademark applications: Kumo, or Sift, or who knows what?

All this business about what the new name for Live Search might be has a lot of blog writers and journalists turning over all kinds of rocks, including lots of fun with TESS, the US Patent and Trademark Office’s …

Spaces Team shuts down their blog (eh, what?)

spacecraft From the News of the Weird Department, the team that makes the blogging software for Microsoft, Windows Live Spaces, has decided to shut down their, umm, blog.  Posts on The Space Craft and Windows Live Wire announced on Friday …

Translator coming for websites; available for Office now

At Mix 09, the Microsoft Translator team announced a new web page widget, built on top of a new AJAX API, and put up a sign up sheet for anyone who was interested in trying it out.  We …

Zune HD Specs, What We Do & Don’t Know

With all the rumors flying around this week, Its been difficult to discern the fact from the fan-fiction. To help clear up some of this fog, me and  Sean Bradford over at neowin.net decided to put our facts together. We
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Why All The Zune Leaks? The Buzz Is Deafening!

I don’t know about you, but my head is spinning from all this Zune news. Well the buzz from the leaks may be deafening, the silence from Microsoft is positively ear shattering.

Trying to keep something under wraps in this …

Live Search cashback updated; now integrated with Live Search Products

Live Search cashback, the program that pays US users of Live Search to purchase certain products after conducting Live Searches for them, has been integrated into Live Search Products, according to a blog post on the Live Search team blog…

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