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For large web sites with extensive amounts of content, 2 to 10 percent of traffic is looking for pages that either don’t exist or have been moved. Most web servers return a generic 404 error page or a sitemap when a user’s desired page cannot be found. These unhelpful pages often result in a dead end for users.

With Microsoft’s Web Page Error Toolkit, you can create dynamic 404 pages that contain customized error messages along with search results seeded with relevant keywords to help your users move past the missing page and find the information they need.

The Toolkit is a customizable ASP.net application that replaces the default error page on your IIS server. The Toolkit enables you to use Live Search (or any search engine) to return results for the specified domain and locale, control the number of results returned on your page, choose whether to offer spelling corrections, and customize your error message.

You also have the option of choosing from several keyword extraction strategies that are included with the install, or providing your own implementation.

Get the Toolkit

To install the Toolkit, click WebPageErrorToolkitSetup.msi.

Before you install, review the API terms of service at Windows Live Platform and Services - Terms of Service.

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The Live Search Interactive SDK now includes code samples for VB.net, in addition to C# and SOAP. The Interactive SDK provides a quick look at the Live Search APIs in action.

To use the Interactive SDK, go to http://dev.live.com/livesearch/sdk/ and get started.

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Flash code samples for the Live Search API are now available. For more information or to download the sample, see Flash code samples.

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The Live Search team has released an updated SDK for the Live Search API version 1.1b. You can read the SDK on MSDN or download a copy to your machine.

The Live Search SDK provides documentation that describes the core concepts, requirements, development guidelines, and class library for the Live Search Web Service. The SDK also contains sample code that demonstrates application development techniques using the Live Search Web Service.

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The Live Search team has released new, downloadable code samples for calling the Live Search Web Service from a variety of applications, including:

• VB.NET
• Java
• PHP
• C#
• Python
• Ruby

For more information, see Downloadable Code Samples in the Live Search SDK on MSDN.

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