Today we’re proud to announce the release of the Live Search Web Service (previously known as the MSN Search Web Service Beta). For those new to our search service, it allows developers to programmatically submit queries and retrieve results from the Windows Live Search Engine using a SOAP API.

Check out the Live Search SDK to find out what’s new, including:

• Lots more sample code!
• Weather and Movie Time queries
• Support for keyword/placename queries (ex: coffee seattle)
• Increased number of results returned (from 250 to 1,000)
• Easier to write paging algorithms
• Support for file type filtering
• Support for the zh-CN market for Web and News queries
• Local query support in additional markets
• Enhanced functionality for SearchTags (ex: filtering)

We're excited by the progress that we've made and we would like to thank the developer community for their support and feedback to date. Please keep the feedback coming! Your comments and suggestions are always welcome on our Forum.

--Kevin

For information on commercial terms for use of the Windows Live Search Service, please use the commercial inquiry form.