There are speculations that Microsoft is testing Kumo.com among its staff members for feedback. Kumo is a new test program of Microsoft.

According to Kip Kniskern of Liveside.net, Kumo is due for some extremely vital changes, however, it is not confirmed what are those changes!

Towards the end of last year, Liveside.net gave a deeper insight on Kumo being the successor of Microsoft’s Live Search.

The official blog of the Live Search team has been talking about “Optimizing your very large site for search.” Well, it is a series decked with four key aspects that a site should have to raise its relevance and coverage. Following are the four aspects:

Part 1
We started by focusing on reducing the surface area of your site by removing and canonicalizing your URLs. Reducing URLs that are redundant or unnecessary will make room for the ones that are. This post offers some practical suggestions on how to make fewer URLs a reality.

Part 2
After removing redundant URLs, we focused on the need to optimize for crawl by ensuring you are compressing your site and telling us which content is new or recently updated. This helps us focus on crawling the latest and greatest content.