Live Search to become the latest to try 404 redirects

In its scramble to avoid sliding to as low as fifth on the scale of search engine providers this year, Microsoft today has begun grabbing misspelled URLs pointing to its own hosted domains, and redirecting those users to Live Search.

New HP-Microsoft Live Search deal is all about Silverlight

Following the recent announcement of Live Search cashback,
Microsoft has today disclosed a new deal with HP that is expected to
give a slight boost to the usage of both Live Search and Silverlight in
the US and Canada, starting in January 2009. The deal centers around a
Silverlight-powered toolbar (not to be confused with the recently
updated MSN Silverlight toolbar) that Microsoft is specifically developing for HP.

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