Windows Live Search Web Service and SDK Released

The Windows Live Search Team announces the release of the Live Search Web Service (previously known as the MSN Search Web Service Beta) at Jan 26, 2007. It includes new features:

Lots more sample code!

Weather and Movie Time queries

Support for keyword/placename queries (ex: coffee seattle)

Increased number of results returned (from 250 to 1,000)

Easier to write paging algorithms

Support for file type filtering

Support for the zh-CN market for Web and News queries

Local query support in additional markets

Enhanced functionality for SearchTags (ex: filtering)

So Windows Live API includes:

Microsoft adCenter API

Windows Live™ Search Web Service API

Messenger Activity SDK

Windows Live™ Messenger Add-In API

Windows Live™ Spaces MetaWeblog API

Virtual Earth Map Control SDK, Version 4.0

Windows Live™ Alerts SDK

Windows Live™ Custom Domains SDK

Windows Live™ Expo (Beta) API

Windows Live™ ID Service

Windows Live™ Toolbar Custom Button SDK

Windows Live™ Writer SDK

via: Windows Live SDK( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb264574.aspx )