The excitable folks working on Live Search at Microsoft think they have come a long way in nine months with their work on relevance.

Live Search Team Channeling Steve Ballmer

And boy, is their blog post title excited about it. “Relevance, Relevance, Relevance!” Shades of the famous Dancing Ballmer video, where he chants the word ‘Developers’ over and over for several seconds.

The cheeky people revamping Live Search gave that moment a hat tip as they talked about making relevance an even greater part of their search engine. Their latest update spent over nine months in the works.

They list reduced spam as an improvement in their index:

You might ask how we know spam is down? Experts on our team take a