Windows Live Search Enables Macros

They call it "rolling your own search" and an easy process to create a macro illustrates the process of setting up a lengthy query as a one-click bit of functionality. Humorously enough, in the example livesearch.recipes macro for Windows Live Search, one of the functions specifically excludes linkdomain results from googlesyndication.com. It's always good to see a little competitive feistiness between the search engines; it shows they care. Power users of Microsoft Office, especially Excel and Access, have more than a passing familiarity with macros. They enable users to automate complex tasks instead of repeating them step by tedious step. With Live's Search Macros, users can automate those queries containing multiple operators into a single macro. The Search Macro team noted on their The Search Macro team's example macro, livesearch.recipes, contains another operator not mentioned: intitle. Also, operators can be combined, as their example shows the query can be ordered by prefer:site: to bring a particular website's results to the forefront. The Search Macros team plans to make more information for macros and search available in the future. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web Drag this to your Bookmarks. David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.