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Live Search Lets Visitors Find What They're Looking For

You can easily add Search to your site with our Live Search box. For more options, use our Live Search Web Service, where you’ll be able to query for web results, images, news, phonebook listings, feeds, and metatags.

 

 

SOAP API

With the SOAP API you can create a custom search engine, enhance your existing site search with spelling suggestions, images, news articles, feeds and phonebook results.

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AJAX Control

Easily add search to your web site with this AJAX control. Deploy the script as is from the wizard, or customize it for more functionality. [Note, search on dev.live.com uses the AJAX control.]

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Customize your 404 error pages with the Web Page Error Toolkit

For large web sites with extensive amounts of content, 2 to 10 percent of traffic is looking for pages that either don’t exist or have been moved. Most web servers return a generic 404 error page or a sitemap when a user’s desired page cannot be found. These unhelpful pages often result in a dead end for users. With Microsoft’s Web Page Error Toolkit, you can create dynamic 404 pages that contain....

VB Samples now available in the Interactive SDK!

The Live Search Interactive SDK now includes code samples for VB.net, in addition to C# and SOAP. The Interactive SDK provides a quick look at the Live Search APIs in action. To use the Interactive SDK, go to http://dev.live.com/livesearch/sdk/ and get started.....

Flash code samples now available

Flash code samples for the Live Search API are now available. For more information or to download the sample, see Flash code samples.....

Updated Live Search SDK now available

The Live Search team has released an updated SDK for the Live Search API version 1.1b. You can read the SDK on MSDN or download a copy to your machine. The Live Search SDK provides documentation that describes the core concepts, requirements, development guidelines, and class library for the Live Search Web Service. The SDK also contains sample code that demonstrates application development....

Getting Started with the Live Search Web Service API

The Live Search Web Service enables you to create applications that return results from the Live Search Engine. Applications are developed in any Microsoft .NET language for Windows or the Web. Follow these steps to get started with the Live Search Web Service: Read the SDK on MSDN or download the SDK to your machine. The SDK documentation describes the core concepts, requirements, develo....

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