Microsoft Livens up live search to battle competition

Microsoft began phasing in a slick new version of its live search service in a bid to gain ground on leading Internet search rivals Google and Yahoo. Microsoft improved live search will be available globally by the time you read this. According to vice president of search and advertising platform group Satya Nadella, " the core thing of us is to show user we made a quantum jump in search result, " Nadella said while demonstrating search at an invitation only gathering at Microsoft campus in mountain view, is the world's most popular Internet search engine. California based Yahoo ranks second . Live, which replaced Microsoft MSN search service in 2006, has been mired in distant third place.