Microsoft registered the Kumo.com domain name last week, a move that sparked speculation Microsoft is considering rebranding/relaunching Live Search. Kumo in Japanese means "spider" and ...

Microsoft and search branding has been a mess for a while … there has been separate chatter about a rebrand back to Windows Live Search, which would tie the search engine back to the other Windows ...

Microsoft Corp. this week redesigned the home page for MSN Search to give it a similar look other services under its “Live” brand. The move is in anticipation of MSN Search’s imminent name change to ...

Citing sources familiar with the deal, Foley late last week reported that Microsoft has convinced Dell to scrap its existing search toolbar deal with Google and replace it with Microsoft's Live Search ...

You know you’re desperate for news about a new search engine when the possibility of one letter of its logo being accidentally revealed merits comment. But what the heck: The ever-enterprising M.G.

Microsoft Corp. today is expected to unveil upcoming enterprise search software that it said will let employees find information located anywhere from their desktop computers and their corporate ...

In case you missed it, Microsoft Live Search finally came out of beta testing and officially launched as a search platform. And while the folks in Redmond certainly have more they can do to improve ...

Microsoft released a revamped search engine Wednesday, named Windows Live Search, with a new design and features such as search preview, scoping tools, a search "slider bar" that increases the level ...

Microsoft is quietly adding services to its Windows Live portfolio to compete with services Google and Yahoo already have in place. Microsoft confirmed through its Waggener Edstrom public relations ...

The company is releasing some APIs as part of an ongoing effort to woo support for its Windows Live hosted services, particularly from small, Web-based firms In an effort to drum up support for its ...

Microsoft Thursday unveiled a revamped Live Search API that developers can use to embed search on Web sites with more support for frequently used Web-development technologies and less restrictions on ...