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Hi,

I would like to know what is the difference between bing search engine and live.

Thanks

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A short, practical follow-up that builds on the name-change notes from and : the thing that really matters for site owners and SEOs is not the brand but how the engine crawls, indexes and displays pages. The replies here correctly pointed out the rebrand; below are concrete, actionable points that weren’t covered in the thread.

Key items to check and actions to take

  • Crawler access: make sure your server and robots.txt do not block the engine’s crawler. Watch server logs for the crawler’s user agent to confirm crawl activity.

  • Site verification and sitemaps: verify ownership in the engine’s webmaster tools (meta tag or DNS verification) and submit an XML sitemap so new content is discovered faster. A common verification meta tag looks like:

    <meta name="msvalidate.01" content="YOUR_VERIFICATION_TOKEN" />

  • Structured data and rich results: implement schema.org markup (JSON-LD preferred) for articles, products, local business, reviews, etc., so the engine can show enhanced results. See the schema.org documentation for recommended types and examples.

  • On-page and technical basics: correct use of canonical tags, consistent hreflang for multi-language sites, proper HTTP status codes (301 for moved content; avoid soft 404s), fast page load times and mobile-friendly pages all improve how pages are treated.

  • Local and business listings: keep any business/profile listings up to date in the engine’s local listings product to control local discovery.

Troubleshooting checklist

  • If pages aren’t indexed, check for noindex meta tags, blocking rules in robots.txt, or canonical tags pointing elsewhere. Use server logs to confirm the crawler reached the URL and returned 200. Compare query and impression data in webmaster tools to see which queries drive visibility.

For a concise history and timeline, consult the public summary of the engine’s development on Wikipedia: Bing (search engine). For schema and structured-data guidance, see Schema.org.

Notes: ’s comment about improved relevance is useful—measure that improvement with impressions, CTR and rankings in webmaster tools rather than relying on anecdote. ’s market-share question is best answered with up-to-date tracker data (StatCounter, comScore), since those numbers change over time.

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Member Avatar for seo2005

Live.com is merged to bing.com now.

You mean live.com has been renamed as bing.com.

Was Live.com a search engine or name of a service from Microsoft.

Member Avatar for thefandango

Live was MSN's search engine, they have just re-named it and tweaked it a bit.

Member Avatar for philoutsource09

As I know that Live.com was replaced by Bing or something like merging them and I think the difference between the two is that the features, Bing now does have much improve features and other new features added to it.

Member Avatar for seo2005

Thank you all for clarification.

Member Avatar for Allison2009

Hi,

I would like to know what is the difference between bing search engine and live.

Thanks

Bing is the newer version of Live. Even if you type live.com in the url space, you will be automatically directed to bing.com.

Both are developed by Microsoft Corporation

Allison

Member Avatar for crimgirl

besides Personally, I'm actually finding Bing's results a notable improvement over Live

Member Avatar for crimgirl

and it seems to be at least on par with Google as far as relevance is concerned
so i already work on BING and wish would have good results

Member Avatar for Flower

Bing is the new changed and advanced form of live.com.

Member Avatar for ayoungpretender

BING receive more than enough attention
and I do think It rocks

Member Avatar for InsightsDigital

I wonder if in a year, what is the market share Bing will have? Do you predict it will be more than 30% or even 50%?

Member Avatar for mackone

It sounds promising... Bing is definitely going to catchup, all the optimizations we used to do for Google will now have to be done for Bing too.

Member Avatar for InsightsDigital

Bing/Yahoo may use another factor in its crawler to rank sites. Time will tell and if I find out, I will certainly post it here for discussion.

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