Bringing Live Search to your SharePoint Site

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Arpan Shah has a nice post on his blog explaining how to use the DataFormWebPart to render search results from Live.com. It's a tutorial (with screenshots) on how to accomplish this using SharePoint Designer - at the heart of the post you'll learn to consume an RSS feed through the DFWP, step-by-step. With a little imagination you can apply the technique to bring in all sorts of external data to your SharePoint site, and still have the rich design tools for the DFWP available to you to customize the results view.