Live Search Macros from Microsoft
MSN released Live search macros in March this year and people are yet to get the feel of its working.
According to MSN live search article “Search Macros are personalized search engines for any topic area of interest. You can create them, use them, share them with friends……”
Creating and using macros do not require the user to be signed in to Windows Live but certainly required to be logged in when saving and sharing the macros with friends and within communities.
I tried to create one myself here at http://search.live.com/macros but couldn’t understand or get any help from the help files provided. I tried using Trial and error (there was no error though!) method and developed few macros myself although they are still the product of insufficient knowledge so may not work the way MSN wants their macros to work. 
But I have now grown more into search macros (as hell bent as I’m when wanting to do/learn something new) and can easily create and share macros in few seconds.
The very first step is to list websites from which you want the search results to be pulled based on your keyword(s). For instance if you want to search products from ebay.com, Overstock or Target stores, then you will need to list websites into the text area provided, one sites per line. With this you have defined the scope of search macro.
For Advanced version you need to write macro code like this into the text box provided to write your own code:
(site:ebay.com OR site:overstock.com OR site:target.com)
Now you can enter any product you want to search from the above listed websites in the “Text search” box. E.g you are looking for “4 GB USB Drive”. So your Text search box will look like below.
The search result will pull product listings from above websites selling 4 GB USB drive. Now it is time to save your macro and give it a name so that it is assigned a unique url where people can visit and use the search macro.
The saved macro can be viewed live at http://search.live.com/macros/webcontent_seo4u/searchproduct/
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