Microsoft Shows Off New 'Windows Live Search'
Posted by lardiop on 08 March 2006 - 19:56 · 24 comments & 8538 views
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#1 Posted by frogworm on 08 Mar 2006 - 20:48
- pretty nice. well-thought out and cutting edge by replacing pages with scroll buttons. not sure if it would be as developer friendly though but then again it may just be the rendering for the page.
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#2 Posted by Sn4k36 on 08 Mar 2006 - 21:00
- Looks like AJAX is on the high rise.. This new site is starting to look pretty sweet.
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#2.1 Posted by lodgepole on 09 Mar 2006 - 06:50
- I'm certainly interested. AJAX everywhere on the site. I like the slider for the detail, at least it was intuitive to me. The slider for results however, was not intuitive to me -- having the item range in the upper section is not where I intuitively look to see where I am in the set of results. There's also no way for me to quickly go to results further in the returned list, or to quickly return back to the beginning.
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#3 Posted by Android on 08 Mar 2006 - 21:05
- A good effort by MS, looks pretty and has a intuitive, unique interface. Not 100% keen on the funny scroll bar, it doesn't really indicate where you are in the results.
Shame it doesn't work with Safari on OS 10.4.5, but it is a 'beta'. -
#3.1 Posted by Goalie_CA on 09 Mar 2006 - 09:25
- The scrollbar breaks autoscroll and tons of other user input methods.
Also found it irritating how the search bar appears before the splash page (before it even showed loading) so i typed my query in and nothing appeared. I figure its because it blanks the text field when it loads.
That zoom in images search blows goats for bus fare. Really awful and distracting. Makes it hard to actually open the image or page therein and while my mouse is passing by it lags everything.
Maybe the search engine is actually decent, but with an unusable and slow interface why bother!?
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#4 Posted by andy89 on 08 Mar 2006 - 21:21
- Personally i think its rubbish, it has nothing on google. For example as a little test search i decided to type in neowin, one would expect that this site would come up as the 1st result, but oh no neowin.com (a advertising placeholder) comes up 1st!!!!??????
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#4.1 Posted by Varish on 08 Mar 2006 - 21:31
- try searching from here http://search.live.com/
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#4.2 Posted by andy89 on 08 Mar 2006 - 22:02
- what a silly mistake sir, i must have just assumed that the link provided on the site i.e. live.com was the actual search. Shame on me.
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#4.3 Posted by Smigit on 09 Mar 2006 - 00:26
- I'd think expecting a beta to function propprly is silly but thats just me.
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#4.4 Posted by andy89 on 09 Mar 2006 - 08:02
- well it's got to start funtioning properly somewhere...
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#5 Posted by Porp on 08 Mar 2006 - 21:50
- wow i like it a lot
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#6 Posted by Funk Dok on 08 Mar 2006 - 22:27
- I don't want to sound sarcastic, but they said it would be 100% firefox compatible (while it's not). The safety center only works with ie.
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#7 Posted by Galley on 08 Mar 2006 - 23:27
- I tried searching for photos of Kelly Clarkson in Opera 9, and it seemed to be loading all 14,000 results in the left pane. WTF?
Kelly Clarkson image search
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#8 Posted by Croquant on 08 Mar 2006 - 23:28
- Too little, too late, microsoft. I'm already comfortable with google, so why should I switch?
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#9 Posted by Fubar on 09 Mar 2006 - 00:12
- i found it slower than google all that content is just annoying when you first go to it how many home pages do they want the average user to have lol , google is plain and simple
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#10 Posted by bid1 on 09 Mar 2006 - 00:21
- For the BIG company M$ is and the amounts of money they have, it is indeed too little too late. Even when google started out in 98, it was better than this page. This is hardly what one would expect from the largest software developper in the world.
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#11 Posted by Cube on 09 Mar 2006 - 00:45
- holy crap this is a sexy search engine
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#12 Posted by Sotto_Zero on 09 Mar 2006 - 01:16
- Check http://ideas.live.com. There is a new Windows Live Toolbar that is REALLY cool.
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#13 Posted by LG1 on 09 Mar 2006 - 05:07
- rofl i added google to my live site
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#14 Posted by j0j081 on 09 Mar 2006 - 05:56
- doesn't seem to work in Opera 9 yet but that's okay I still use IE for Windows Live Mail.
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#15 Posted by ACTIONpack on 09 Mar 2006 - 06:16
- I'm surprise that Microsoft did this. When I first saw live.com it look really bad. Looks great but will it search better then google.
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#16 Posted by marlow714 on 09 Mar 2006 - 10:42
- Very nice stuff!
Microsoft has released a preview version of what will eventually become the flagship search engine for the
Redmond
Washington
based software giant. Windows Live Search is the cornerstone of Microsoft's new
"Live" campaign, which aims to unite all the companies’ web services
under a single banner.
"With expected delivery in 2006, Windows Live Search will deliver powerful and personal search services that help consumers find what they are looking for on the Web, their desktop, their mobile device or in their local geographic area, such as instant answers, documents, pictures, multimedia content, local information and immersive maps. Windows Live Search will be a core element of the overall Windows Live experience, powering compelling scenarios across the Windows Live services."
The new search engine is concentrating on producing relevant information to the user, while providing applicable local search results the user might find informative. The preview also demonstrates Microsoft's brand new image and video search, which is no longer based on licensed technology provided by Picsearch of Sweden. Live Search has been integrated into an improved Live.com site since March 8th, and is scheduled to 'go live' sometime this summer.