# Live search?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-search/488129>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 3, 2009, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-search/488129 "2009-03-03T10:24:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-search/488129/1 "2009-03-03T10:24:20Z")

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Why is Google so much better then Microsoft live search?  
Or even, why wont Live search find even the most basic of search queries?

I was on someone else’s computer and didn’t know the URL for the straight dope……usually I just Google smdb and the first or second link brings me here

But when I tried it in the Microsoft search engine, the results I got where everything except this board, I got a lot of links to random sites, but not this board, when I added message board, still not what I’m looking for, a link to a wiki page and a lot of acronym sites

Does Live search work under some completely different search method? And am I using it wrong? Why the big difference?

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**Author:** ![NBYodo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9a28c/32.png) [@NBYodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NBYodo)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-search/488129/2 "2009-03-03T12:48:04Z")

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Well, I don’t have an answer to your question 😉 but it might help typing in sdmb instead of smdb…

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**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-search/488129/3 "2009-03-03T13:19:23Z")

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oh!  
that was a typo  
I used sdmb

best result was

> [@](#):
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> SDMB - What does SDMB stand for? Acronyms and abbreviations by the …  
> Acronym Definition; SDMB: Straight Dope Message Board: SDMB: Sonoran Desert Mountain Bicyclists: SDMB: State Digital Map Base (Australia) SDMB: Sun Devil Marching Band (Arizona …
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> [SDMB - What does SDMB stand for? The Free Dictionary](http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/SDMB)

at result number 8 or so

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**Author:** ![Mike.V](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Mike.V](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike.V)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-search/488129/4 "2009-03-03T17:20:08Z")

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Perhaps you just glanced over it?

When I search Live for “SDMB”, “[boards.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com)” is the first result (on Google I actually get “Sonoran Desert Mountain Bicyclists” as the first result).

> **[SDMB - Bing](http://www.bing.com/search?q=SDMB&go=&form=QBLH)**
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> Intelligent search from Bing makes it easier to quickly find what you’re looking for and rewards you.

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**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-search/488129/5 "2009-03-03T18:30:16Z")

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> [@Mike.V](#):
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> Perhaps you just glanced over it?
> 
> When I search Live for “SDMB”, “[boards.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com)” is the first result (on Google I actually get “Sonoran Desert Mountain Bicyclists” as the first result).
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> [SDMB - Search](http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=SDMB&go=&form=QBLH)

Same here.