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- quikboy, on 05/07/2008, -9/+55I would agree that the new search page is rather boring (I like the old one better), but I don't see how the homepage needs to be innovative. Exactly how is Google's or Yahoo!'s homepage any more innovative?
If we're talking about Live Search itself, the true innovation lies in how it displays Image and Video results. And Academic and Book search aren't bad either. Also, on Live Maps, when you search for businesses, the results dynamically change as you zoom in and out of the map to better reflect the data. On Google Maps, when you zoom in and out, the results are exactly the same and static.
Not saying Live Search is the best, but it's not too bad. Not as bad as what Yahoo! Search is. - FatBurger, on 05/07/2008, -5/+37There are people who don't use Google?
- cplusplus, on 05/07/2008, -7/+28The name "Live" is confusing. Its not live. Its searching an index it built of the web last week or whenever.
- holmenb, on 05/07/2008, -1/+20Citation Needed
- SSCrow, on 05/07/2008, -9/+26Its just that Microsoft is behind it is what people have a problem with.
Live search itself is just fine. - Condemned, on 05/07/2008, -1/+17For me, the first result is a link to digg.com.
- FKnight, on 05/07/2008, -10/+25All I know is Live's image search makes Google's image search look like a kindergarten crafts project. And the images are actually relevent.
- alpha19, on 05/07/2008, -7/+18It's ugly. The old one looked better. iGoogle > MyLive
- fiveoaks, on 05/07/2008, -1/+11The results page looks like google, but more confusing.
- rsmithrun, on 05/07/2008, -0/+9The second one.
- mdramige, on 05/07/2008, -2/+10Except Yahoo users... They want 20,000 words, 5,000 links, 1,000 images, and 500 ads per page. No Less!!
- Ganja420, on 05/07/2008, -3/+11Because Steve Jobs is infallible
- Newedge14, on 05/07/2008, -1/+7Yknow I was not going to ask, but what possessed you to search for "anal bum cover"
- FutureGuy, on 05/07/2008, -4/+10I think there are a quite a few innovative features, they do an awful job marketing them
http://search.live.com/images/results.aspx?q=barak ...
http://search.live.com/images/results.aspx?q=barak ...
http://search.live.com/images/results.aspx?q=barak ...
I also find it stereotypical to say that nothing MS does is innovative, 2 of the top 10 most innovative gadgets of 2007 as per popular mechanics were from MS (Surface and Sync) and MS is not even an hardware company. - Ossuary, on 05/07/2008, -1/+7Microsoft has got to have the people who can come up with better stuff. I know they have to be in there somewhere. Why can't they do better? Is some marketing group throttling them back? WTH? They have some brilliant people working there, but it is just dying on the vine.
- Kindjal, on 05/07/2008, -1/+7HAHAHAHA! Try searching for Vista. This is beyond incompetence. The link to their own product is way down in the list (on google its the first). the second link is:
Repair vista:
- Errorsmart.com
Fix vista errors. Takes only 3 Mins. Free. - chris9902, on 05/07/2008, -2/+8iSearch: "porn"
Results: pictures of iMacs, iPhones and Steve Jobs - maninalift, on 05/07/2008, -0/+5I get "Disability Information Greater Glasgow" I guess they are weighing too heavily the fact that I'm in the UK.
- Blacksheep34, on 05/07/2008, -0/+5People calling people gay are usually gay....
- bmcnally, on 05/07/2008, -1/+6Ummm . . . no? Digg is the first result, as well as links nested to videos, technology, games . . .
- brett717, on 05/07/2008, -0/+5http://nggc.org/Images/wtfdigg.JPG
Wtf digg? I want to read the article, not the ***** mcdonalds ad - otw7, on 05/07/2008, -0/+5Ya I get a few search results every day that aren't very relevant. Microsoft should probably put that on the top of their priority list instead of my.live.com.
- PatrickBrown, on 05/07/2008, -0/+5SNL
- vertexoflife, on 05/07/2008, -1/+6Not in firefox.
- TheThirdWheel, on 05/07/2008, -17/+22It must really suck to work for Microsoft. No matter what you spend your days toiling away on, whether the product is good or not. 99% of your peers will instantly hate it and anyone who unfairly critiques it is a genius. I like the new homepage you Microsoft dudes, good job.
- inavat, on 05/07/2008, -3/+8Don't be an idiot. There is a column on the right that says "Refine Search By: " and "size" is one of the options.
- superkendall, on 05/07/2008, -3/+7I personally still prefer Google maps, way smoother scrolling around an arial view, and Street View is more useful than Birdseye. Also, having "Arial" and "Brdseye" as two different options is kind of confusing - though I doubt most people would understand "isometric" anytime soon. Still, it's a weird UI confusion as you have to think which one you want to hit.
- maninalift, on 05/07/2008, -2/+6It depends what you want. Microsoft Live Search gives results with a much narrower focus so when the results are what you want they are all good but when they are not what you want they are all wrong.
Type "little" in to MLS and half the images are of the little mermaid. In Google you get the random assortment you would expect from such a vague search, similarly if you type "moderate" MSLS gives a load of stuff about acne.
Apart from that in my experience I don't think either is MUCH better than the other. Google has started its image labeling project so that may change things - talonstriker, on 05/07/2008, -1/+5For me its linking to blog.digg.com (maybe it takes into account locality?). There is no link to the homepage of digg, which is what he meant I think.
- freezerburn666, on 05/07/2008, -2/+6when i click personalize nothing happens... maybe it only works with IE 7...
- coollettuce, on 05/07/2008, -3/+7I've got a question and it might sound silly. Is Microsoft Live pronounced 'live' as in the verb form, to live or 'live' as in this tv broadcast is live? Thanks.
- Startemus, on 05/07/2008, -2/+5*random anti-Microsoft comment*
- Zippo, on 05/07/2008, -5/+8I kind of feel bad for all the hard-working developers at Microsoft. I'm sure the creative directors and head programmers are crying to be heard, only be be silenced by the folks upstairs who are more focused on cutting corners, and buying out other companies... focused more on money... instead of focusing on what's important - making a good, solid product. *cough*windows*cough*
I'm sure the people who make the products are talented people... just suffocated by bad management and/or a lack of motivation. - estvir, on 05/08/2008, -1/+4Wow, those filters are awesome. Is there a list of available ones somewhere?
- rsmithrun, on 05/07/2008, -9/+12This post is a sorry excuse for a chance to take a shot at Microsoft. It is a redesign of the search page, nothing more. If Google stole that design and put their name on it this is the post you would see "New Google Search homepage...BRILLIANT!" So just stop the Microsoft bashing for no reason.
- goscript, on 05/07/2008, -1/+4Don't know about you, but when I click on "More", all I get is "See all.."
- AdHaR, on 05/07/2008, -0/+3Two words: AdBlock Plus
- EEdesigner, on 05/07/2008, -4/+7Microsoft CANNOT innovate. I'm positive that there many brilliant software engineers working there, but now that MS is a large company, they have managers right out of Dilbert. I know. Been there, done that. These managers could suck the creativity out of Einstein. Given that Microsoft never even had a core group of creativity, and learned to sit back and watch Gates purchase all the real creativity, they are left with no creative core, no roadmap, and worst of all, no legacy software worth a c**p.
- boldfire, on 05/07/2008, -1/+4This is true, but it hardly helps when they can't make up their minds about names. "Windows Live" then "Windows Live Search" and then "Live Search". 3 Names since 2006 and more designs than that even, it's quite obvious that Microsoft don't know what they want apart from they want to beat Google.
- vacuum2440, on 05/07/2008, -5/+8wow anyone else think that looks almost exactly like google search, like i dont get how anyone can use those other search engines where the top seaches are the ones who pay the most money...google is by far the most unbiased search engine
- crazysamz, on 05/07/2008, -0/+3You just called about 90-95% of the world's computer user's gay... Your probably going to get a lot of comebacks better than yours... Maybe you should, you know, learn from them and come up with something better..
- bmcnally, on 05/07/2008, -2/+4Microsoft is not a monolithic company, which is what people seem to think. The people at Live do not report to the same people as Office and they don't report to the same people at Xbox (eventually they do, but not in day-to-day decisions).
Think of it more as a GE - a bunch of small companies under a single masthead. - talonstriker, on 05/07/2008, -1/+3What are you talking about? Recently the trend has been to be supportive of MS while bashing Apple. But MS does get criticized when it does wrong.
- jon31rm, on 05/07/2008, -1/+3Sidebar only shows up in IE apparently. Doesn't show up in Safari or Firefox for OS X.
- geobay, on 05/07/2008, -0/+2Very useful in prison
- SSUK, on 05/07/2008, -1/+3Update your Flash player, update your browser, get AdBlock for your browser.
- mossblaser, on 05/07/2008, -0/+2In the UK I get
"Disability Information Greater Glasgow
Information on disabilities and disability services in Glasgow for the public, carers and health care profesionals ... Disability Information for Greater Glasgow (DIGG) DIGG aims ...
* www.digg.org.uk
* · Cached page" - mindbullet, on 05/07/2008, -2/+4I tried the new live search and I was very pleased. I searched "world's best search engine" and found plenty of references to google. lol
- Newedge14, on 05/07/2008, -1/+3they do?
http://search.yahoo.com/ - LargeTrout, on 05/07/2008, -0/+2Just because I use PC's does not mean I like men's bums. Your parents and education have failed you.
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