Hey gang.

I am working on an application where I really could benefit from having some meta data about the search I am trying to perform. I am previously a google person but I believe with search.msn.com some REALLY neat things are happening so I am giving the MSN Search SDK a shot as I love .NET

Now what I would like to do is via the web service be able to pass the same parameters that search.msn.com allows setting such as under Search Builder/Results Ranking:

Static/Dynamic, Less Popular/Popularity, Exact Match/Approximate Match

Is this possible? I don't see any properties to do so.

Also ontop of that. Is there any possible way to receive meta data about these properties as well when I get results? It would be cool to be able to do a search based on say xbox 360 and ps3, and compare the 2 top articles on which has a higher popularity index for example.

Also a real important thing I need that google provides. Is there a way to see what the top X number of searches are for today? It would be really useful to be able to query the msn search webservice what currently (and also would be awesome is if you could pass a date, what was most popular on X date) is popular.

I think with these capabilities one can do many various things based on that meta data.

Could anyone give me a bit of guidance and feedback?

Thanks and take care!