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live.com search integration

By Nick Hodge | September 8, 2007

Yes, at the present time have Google adsense on my blog. It barely pays for the host­ing of www.nickhodge.com. Vir­tu­ally no rev­enue stems from the embed­ded Google Search.

Search is import­ant as I’ve just des­troyed my old nav­ig­a­tion hier­archy in the trans­ition from the old CMS to a 100% Word­press sys­tem.

Time to change my search provider.

Over to http://dev.live.com/livesearch/ and spe­cific­ally http://search.live.com/siteowner.

Tweak my search­form in Word­press. Done.

There were two edits required in the HTML snip­pet: one to insert a “code page” (for next time: put­ting in obscure num­bers is not a good UX!) and my site URL.

From ran­dom thought to imple­ment­a­tion: 3 minutes.

Topics: live.com, technology | 5 Comments »

5 Responses to “live.com search integration”

  1. Bronwen Zande Says:
    September 11th, 2007 at 12:09 pm

    Don’t sup­pose you want to write a little art­icle on how you did that for new com­munity site http://www.viawindowslive.com ?

  2. Harveys Says:
    September 11th, 2007 at 2:08 pm

    Well done Nick…next get rid of Google Adsense…understand we dont have an altern­at­ive yet…but even Yahoo Panama is a bet­ter option..

  3. Nick Hodge Says:
    September 11th, 2007 at 2:33 pm

    Har­veys– all in good time, all in good time :) . I must say live.com search is now bet­ter than google. this has occured in the last month.

  4. Nick Hodge Says:
    September 11th, 2007 at 2:33 pm

    Bron­wen– can you give me a week? I’d love to contribute.

  5. Bronwen Zande Says:
    September 11th, 2007 at 2:41 pm

    No probs..just register on the site and goto con­trib­ute to list the name of the art­icle etc. and we’ll set you up a page…you add your content…then we’ll checkit and release it for pub­lic con­sump­tion :)

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