Which service to use for Live Search ?

Question

Hi,

I have to integrate Live Search in my web based project. We have to support keyword search for a group of sites.
The Live Search API that I downloaded uses:
http://api.search.live.net/search.wsdl to get the results.

While Live Search Interactive SDK at:http://dev.live.com/livesearch/sdk/
The above uses: http://soap.search.msn.com/webservices.asmx?wsdl

There is a difference in no of results returned; msn returns more results when I search for a group of sites.
Also live.net omits certain site results while msn does display results related to them.

Which one should i use in my project.

Please guide.

Neeru

Answer 1

All your answers are in the links from http://search.live.com/developers

API 2.0 does not have an interactive SDK yet - we are debating if to port the existing one.
MSDN has all the code samples you need for the new entry point as well.

Regarding seeing different numbers of results, the value is a pure guesstimate - do not trust it to do any computation. It is even likely to vary across different issues of the same query.

HTH

--Alessandro