Microsoft Firefox add-on: only UK for now

Mon 2 February 2009 14:18, Bas van den Beld

Microsoft is trying to catch up to Google by finally releasing a Firefox add on for Live Search. With Google focusing more on Chrome Firefox could be an interesting angle for other search engines to gain market share.

The add on, which is based on the Open Search Standard, was launched last Thursday. Unfortunately Europeans will have to wait a bit to be able to really make full use of it. For now it’s in Europe only available in the UK.

The Live Search for Firefox add-on off course makes sure you can use Live Search from within your browser and has got auto-suggestions from Live Search built in. It can be downloaded here.

It is not clear why Microsoft doesn’t launch this relatively simple add on world wide. Other Europeans than the British can download the add onbut won't see any of the features.

Besides that, the auto-suggestion function is already available at Google and I doubt that Europeans will be ‘anxiously’ waiting for the add on to become available in more than just the UK.

<Event coming up: Search Engine S...

Google Earth 5.0 takes the next ...>

Comment

Baidu heatmap

Fri 20 Jan 2012, Kelly Ge

0 comments

There is nothing special about heatmap. You can easily find one and use it for your site, and many like it, for it is easy to get an idea on browsing behavior of visit...... read more

New Tools in Raven SEO Toolbox

Mon 22 Feb 2010, Evert Veldhuijzen

6 comments

Raven SEO toolbox is one of the few tools I use on a daily basis. For three weeks Raven announced a partnership with Majestic SEO and now they already released two new...... read more

New agreement with Facebook coul...

Tue 16 Feb 2010, Editors

0 comments

New agreement with Facebook could be turning point for Bing

End of last week Facebook renegotiated its agreement with Microsoft. One of the consequences is that Facebook will take care of its own display ad business but the big...... read more

Presentation: SES London 2008 - ...

Fri 12 Feb 2010, Editors

0 comments

As you know next week its time for SES London 2010. Many presentations will be held again. But what about the presentations from the past? Are they still valuable? For example this one, from SES London 2008. SES London 2008 - Search Ad Platforms View more presentations from Richard Gregory. ... read more