Daniel WissaThis article explains the different ways you can use to integrate Windows Live Search functionality to your website. There are 3 different ways by which
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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:
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In this article, we’re going to take a look at a few simple hacks for the Windows Live Search Box, to change the look and feel. You can use these hacks to make the search box fit better into the design of your site.
Here are a few simple things you can do:
Apply the Windows Live styling to the basic search box
Add default text to the search box
Auto-select the search box when the page loads
Ensure compatibility with ActiveX and other smart objects
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So, now that you’ve (a) Provisioned a Windows Live Search Box for you site, and (b) Hacking the Look and Feel of the Windows Live Search Box, you are finally ready to build the search query of your dreams.
Back in the old days, search boxes generally gave you two options: (1) search the whole Web or (2) search only your site. With the advanced query parameters of Live Search, you now have complete control to search the subset of the Web you define, and get the results that you are looking for
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Implement Live Search on your own Web site with code and instructions provided in this article.
Adding search capabilities to a Web site can be daunting—Complex problems such as indexing, relevance logic, and hosting issues such as CPU and storage can all be difficult issues to solve. As a potential solution to these issues, Microsoft offers Web site developers the ability to implement the Windows Live Search Service on their sites. This article explains how site search capabilities were impl
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