Microsoft says that Live Search Products and Live Search Cashback hit today been unified into a azygos experience. You crapper today admittance Cashback on Live Search Products page, which is Microsoft’s comparability shopping plumb site. Microsoft has migrated Cashback from the Jellyfish papers (the ethnic shopping place that Microsoft purchased in 2007) to the Live Search platform.

Last year, Microsoft launched the Live Search Cashback program, which gives users monetary incentives to utter finished and acquire products from the ads they’re shown. It was disputable since the advise to acquire mart deal from Google was so drastic and ostensibly desperate.

The Cashback information didn’t hit such of an effect on Microsoft’s search, with its marketshare initiallly bumped up before hovering around 9 % (which is what it was before the program), and Google’s deal remaining at nearly 62 %. But there was a silver lining to the information for Microsoft; its ad income from Live Search increased. Last fall, Microsoft reportable a 30% ontogeny in Cashback offers prefabricated to customers, with 20 of the web?s 50 crowning online retailers in the U.S. involved in the program.

Live Search Products was launched in 2006 as a commerce-only see engine/shopping comparability engine to provide users more germane results when hunting to acquire items online. Live Search Products was launched to be a candid competitor to Froogle, which was reborn as Google Search Products.

Microsoft’s Live Search study has absent finished individual rebranding efforts of its see place in the try to ready up with the see capacities of character and Google. It’s pretty cushy to retrograde road of every the assorted obloquy Microsoft has proven for its see engine. There was MSN Search, Microsoft Search, Live Search and mayhap Windows Live Search. Rumors hit been air around most the newborn name, which appears to be Kumo, which effectuation ?cloud? or ?spider? in Japanese. So perhaps Live Search Products module presently be Kumo Products?

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