ave you ever wanted to implement search capabilities on your own Web site but didn't want to implement the logic and deal with issues such as storage and indexing? Now you can. The
Live Search web service allows your site to make up to 25,000 queries a day for use in both commercial and non-commercial sites—at no cost.
Figure 1 shows the Live Search home page. In addition to a standard search service, Live Search offers specialty searches in categories such as images, news, maps, and more.
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| Figure 1. The Live Search Home Page: You can access both regular and specialty searches through the Live Search home page. |
Two Access Methods
The Live Search team now offers two different ways to utilize search on your site: using the Live Search Box or Windows Live Search API.
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Live Search offers two ways for site developers to build search capabilities into their sites. The Live Search Box allows a user to harness the power of Live Search without writing any code. It provides a fast, customizable search for any Web site. You can find details on how to get started with this option
here. Basically, you just follow the wizard and copy the HTML code provided into your site.
Developers seeking more advanced search capabilities should use the Live Search Web Service, which lets you query the Live Search Engine directly. The Live Search Web Service is an Extensible Markup Language (XML) service with a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) API that allows users to create a custom search engine that can query for Web results, images, news, phonebook listings, feeds, and meta tags.
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