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I've blogged about using Live.com macros to make searching the forums a breeze, but the feedback I've gotten is that the macros themselves are difficult to create, especially for the forums. It's a pain to troubleshoot whether or not the queries are working, and how exactly to use the meta tags (do I use spaces or plus signs or quotation marks or...)
I spent an hour last week playing with the MSN/Windows Live Search meta tags, and I created a small tool that constructed these complex queries for you and launches a browser window to run a search on MSN against your search terms. MSN Search also allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds for a particular search, and these searches are no different.
The tool can be downloaded here:
https://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx?id=eb5f1dc5-6868-4fde-9c78-909832315ccc
I'm still working on the tool, and I'll post updates, but I wanted to get something out there so people could start getting use out of this tool. Any feedback or suggestions are welcome!
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- Anonymous
August 02, 2006
I was playing with search macros in live.com and was amazed at what we can do with those. In past I could... - Anonymous
October 16, 2006
A couple of months ago I created a small tool that utilized some of the cool meta tag searching capabilities