Microsoft has released a tech news aggregator at Live Search News, though I have to wonder if it might be integrated somehow further down the road.
The site is broken down into tabbed categories for the home page, inspiration, methods, business, events, blogs, and products. While Microsoft sites do appear at the top of the lists for some sections such as ASP.net for "blogs", it doesn't appear that sponsored listings are residing at the top as a general practice (at least so far) because
Still, that could all change (not that I'm saying it will) because there is still plenty of work to be done with the site on Microsoft's part. Lauren Cooney, GPM; Web Platform and Standards, Developer Division at Microsoft Also, we'd like your feedback on the site.
So far, there seems to be a lack of quantity for new content. You can look at any category and view the listings by date and easily see posts dating back to August within the first 20 results. It's clear that many new popular and important tech stories are absent, but like Cooney says, they know the content isn't where it needs to be yet, so I'm not going to judge it too harshly at this early stage.
It's also worth noting that there is a mysterious lack of content about Google and Yahoo!, which are present on similar sites like WebProWire. Perhaps, search industry news simply isn't a primary focus of the site.
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