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586 days ago

April 22, 2008 Please stay tuned for blog posts on our recently released updates to Live Product Search. The new posts will be published at the Live Search blog site at: http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch. Imran Aziz Live Search

More Images, More Relevant

955 days ago

Posted April 2007 Note: Google recently re-branded Froogle to Google Product Search as captured in this full story . To avoid confusion, when we refer to Product Search on this blog we’re talking about the same Live Product Search site as we have been for the last year unless we specifically call out Google Product Search. The team just released changes to the live site that boost customer-perceived relevance by increasing the number of query results with images. The table below summarizes the improvement. Why aren’t there 100% images in the top results? The reason is largely because many sites, including very reputable merchants like Amazon.com, BestBuy.com, and AceHardwareSuperStore.com, block image crawling bots or seriously throttle them. We will have to work with these sites to address these issues, but the latest improvements in the number of Product Search top results with images are already quite significant. Percent of Top ...

Product Search and Product Upload Beta – February Refresh!

1007 days ago

The Live Search team has been working hard to improve the Product Search Beta and Product Upload Beta sites based on the customer and merchant feedback that we have collected over the past few months. Here are the changes that we have just released. Product Search Beta Changes Check out the improved experience by visiting the Product Search Beta site. Note that if you go to Product Search via the “More” links in web search results, you may not see these improvements for a few days as the changes are being rolled out incrementally to all Live Search users over the next two weeks. Major performance improvements: We’ve improved the speed of the site by decreasing page load time for Product Search results significantly. Pages load several seconds faster on average. Keep in mind that this is based on testing in Redmond and that actual page load times may vary depending on where you live. UI improvements: We have improved UI usability based on ...

Product Upload Service

1118 days ago

Live Product Search is designed to surface the widest selection of available products on the web. To date, the site has featured products that we’ve identified through crawling the web and extracting product attributes (image, description, price, etc.). Of course, that’s not the only way to get product data. Today, we are pleased to announce Product Upload, a free service for merchants interested in making their product catalog available in Live Product Search. Though a full-scale rollout of the service will happen in early 2007, we are accepting applications for a limited beta program here. After signing up, selected beta participants will receive an invitation code and instructions on how to upload your catalog. We’ll be selecting beta participants based on a need to get a diverse variety of merchants and product types. If you’re not selected as a beta participant, we’ll certainly let you know when the program expands. Here is a quick glance of functionality ...

Product Search Beta update!

1180 days ago

Since my last post in May, we’ve been quietly toiling away at Windows Live Product Search. There is still quite a bit of work ahead of us, but we’ve recently added a number of features and wanted to tell you about them. To provide some context, Product Search provides a search experience custom-tuned for finding products available for sale on the web. Our results provide rich information such as product pictures, pricing, and description. We index these products by crawling the web and extracting rich meta-data from web pages. As with core web search, it is free to be included in Product Search results. Recent improvements to our (still in beta) Product Search include: Larger and fresher selection: We have improved our crawl and extraction algorithms, resulting in both increased breadth of product offers and coverage per seller within our index. Higher quality of selection: We continue to work on increasing the number of quality sites selling products ...