Add Microsoft Live to your blog
This is pretty interesting. I was just doing my link blog (reading my feeds) when I saw this item come through the river of news on Google’s Reader.
Unfortunately it doesn’t work on WordPress.com. Sigh.
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October 31st, 2006 at 7:54 pm
Unforutnately most of the major blog sites make it difficult to add your own code in (including us @ spaces.live.com). But for those of you who hack together your own sites, blogs or use blogger, you should be able to just drop this code onto your sites.
Robert - I’m surprise you haven’t provisioned your own domain and setup your own instance of wordpress by now ;)
October 31st, 2006 at 8:04 pm
It works nicely in Blogspot. Nice find!
October 31st, 2006 at 9:27 pm
Robert,
Nice find - Live Search is doing some cool (dare we say “innovative”?) stuff.
But, and I know you don’t drink the kool-aid anymore, it’s not “Microsoft Live”. It’s Window’s Live, or Live Search. There’s never been a mention from Redmond, that I know of, of any product being called “Microsoft Live” (even though they have apparently bought adCenter keywords for it lol: http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=Microsoft+Live&FORM=OPNSCH).
kip from LiveSide
October 31st, 2006 at 10:02 pm
It is in a sense their reactions to Google CO-OP
But they went one better, by using AJAX in the spirit of Live Search :-D
Good product and quite attractive in a minimalist way
October 31st, 2006 at 11:30 pm
Damn, allways those stupid restrictions.
Quote:”Note this feature is currently only officially supported for the US market.”
I would have given it a test ride on my site, since it seems to be a neat search feature.
@Robert:
Well, it works on wordpress, if you are running it on you own webspace :-)
WordPress is much more powerful that way.
I know it has been said already, but i just had to comment on it .-)
cheers
Martin
October 31st, 2006 at 11:39 pm
[...] Another custom search engine from Microsoft Live November 1, 2006, 1:06 pm I didn’t know that Microsoft Live Search also giving a free custom search engine to be used on your site .. and it’s all thanks to Robert Scoble post because if he didn’t put this on his website i never know about their custom search engine too (dunno if it’s a custom search engine like Google Coop or not) … anyway if you want to try it out you should check the MSDN Blogs about this .. but if it’s for me, i think i’ll stick with my Google Coop. Simply because i was to lazy to redo everything because i already create two custom search engine, the first one is right here as you can see, and the other one is at http://search.reaper-x.com and http://search.reaper-x.com/ajax (although the ajax is just the sample google code with slight modification). [...]
November 1st, 2006 at 1:20 am
Robert, it really is a lot like Google’s Co-op Search, which has a lot of extra tricks in it. I built a demo for you, ‘Search Scoble’s Brain’, using your Bloglines OPML file. You can see it as a widget at http://blog.snipperoo.com
What this reinforces is that, however nice WordPress.com are to you, you really need to move away now. They don’t allow javascript, you are missing out on a huge development going on all around. Move to your own hosted copy of WordPress or to someone who is offering hosted Wordperss installs. Easy.
November 1st, 2006 at 7:53 am
Success in typepad! Brilliant addition to the blogging world. Alright maybe not brilliant but worthwhile. I followed the link in your blog, took the “advanced” trail and added the code to the “typelists” section and voila.
Now, challenge someone to create an search bar that is intuitive enough to anticipate what I want and where to find it. Who knows, you may already have seen it.
– Joe
November 1st, 2006 at 8:52 am
The reason why WP.com doesn’t allow external javascript is because it would be trivial to read login cookies.
Someone could embed javascript on their blog and get the accounts for any wordpress.com user who visited it.
I like to look at it this way: no javascript means I avoid all that blogger bling that piles up and makes your site look like crap.
November 1st, 2006 at 9:23 am
Robert,
I have not done this for wordpress yet, but if they allow any script in their templates it should work there as well.
Check out Google Web, Maps, Video, News, and Blog Search in the context of blogger and typepad blogs.
http://ajaxsearch.blogspot.com
http://ajaxsearch.typepad.com
All of the custom search engine support is fully exposed and its trivial to change the templates slightly to use your own custom search engine instead of the tabs we have on this sample blog.
For instance, here is a blogger who has built a “Lost” (yes, the tv show) Custom Search Engine thats hosted in his blog about Lost:
http://searchlost.blogspot.com/
A very popular search to include on blogs is the video bar solution:
http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/videobar/index.html
By providing search results as Javascript objects that contain the raw properties as well as an html node, we allow people to get very creative with the results. At its heard, the videobar is a simple video search (GvideoSearch). When the results arrive, instead of drawing thumbnail, title, pubDate, etc. It lays out the thumbnails in a bar and links the thumbnail to an action that plays the video anywhere on your page that you like. Very easy to use, and obviously very easy to customize, or start with our sample code and write your own.
November 1st, 2006 at 10:31 am
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November 1st, 2006 at 11:16 am
darn… agreed
go complain at the Microsoft Live feedback:
http://feedback.live.com/eform.aspx?productkey=wlsearchweb&page=wlfeedback_home_form
WordPress is very responsive. Maybe they’ll work w. Microsoft to create a safe Live Search.
November 1st, 2006 at 1:27 pm
to the commentator @4, nops, it is not a reaction to google co-op. Live Macros were launched earlier. Google co-op might have been a reaction to it.
November 1st, 2006 at 3:31 pm
[...] Today the Windows Live Search team announced another exciting feature. You can now add search to your site with the Live Search box. There’s a basic and an advanced option to do this, more info at http://search.live.com/siteowner. Thanks to Scoble I know I don’t have to try to add it to WordPress (too bad) but you can see how it works at SearchEngineWatch. [...]
November 2nd, 2006 at 9:46 pm
I was able to get the Windows Live search code for searching my site in WordPress. Check out http://www.mstechtoday.com/.
I like it but the when the search query results pops up in the Ajax-ish slideout screen, the text is all distorted etc. I hope they improve the UI a bit. Nice tool though!
November 2nd, 2006 at 9:48 pm
I’d also like to note I’m unsure at this time if I’ll keep it though on my site. I doesn’t feel like it indexes fast enough for my latest posts etc.
December 8th, 2006 at 8:01 am
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