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Microsoft leaks its own search plans
A Microsoft employee has posted details about planned changes to Microsoft’s Live Search, ahead of an event next week where the company was slated to unveil the changes to reporters.
The changes to the search product, which were demonstrated at Microsoft’s companywide meeting earlier this month, include improvements in several specific types of search queries, notably in video search and in searches for products.
You can preview videos online by moving your mouse over any video and it will play a preview of the video right away no delays! Isn’t this amazing, at least now you can preview the video before really going and trying to view it, and make sure this is the one you want.
The changes come as Microsoft is struggling to make headway against market leaders Google and Yahoo.
ComScore released its August search results on Friday, showing that Microsoft lost a percentage point of market share compared with July, attracting 12.3 percent of searches. Google gained more than a point, to hold 56.5 percent of the market, while Yahoo slipped two-tenths of a percentage point, to 23.3 percent.
