Im Live Search Blog wurde es angekündigt: Die SOAP API zum Zugriff auf die Microsoft Live Suchergebnisse ist nicht mehr Beta und somit in Version 1.0 verfügbar.

Die Neuerungen:

• More Languages
• Search results increased from the first 250 to the first 1,000.
• Added a flag to disable host collapsing (the suppression of more than two results from a top-level URL) to facilitate the development of accurate paging algorithms.
• Enhanced Search Tags to return results as a comma-delimited list or as an array of name/value pairs.
• Results can also be filtered by the Search Tag name.
• Local Search can be specified using city names and zip codes,
• Added local data support for the following markets: en-AU, en-CA, en-GB, en-US, es-US, fr-CA, fr-FR, and it-IT.
• PhoneBook Results now sort by distance and relevance
• More New Code Samples

Hier gibts die SDK Dokumentation, in der alle Features beschrieben werden.