OK, I am no search-guru. The farthest I have gone to implementing a search strategy is watching my colleague who is a search guru do a demo on how to do a search strategy. But I am an avid user of search. My search default right now is Google - primarily because I search a lot of research materials and their scientific/academic journals search seems to be good.
For other non-serious stuff though, I tend to not really stick to any one. I want my search to be everywhere I am at - which is mostly these days within the MSN Windows Live network. (Since I am a Live Mail fanatic and Windows Live Mail desktop app heavy user [it's always on and it aggregates all my email accounts - both for work- and non-work-related email]...)
I stumbled upon this site on the developments in Windows Live Search. Pretty impressive. I particularly liked the idea of the photo-search/image-search. My biggest problem with Google Image Search is that I have to click through to so many pages to look at all the images - and not only that, I have to get to the source file/site in order to see whether that image is indeed what I was looking for or not. Waste of time.
The one on video search is good, I thought. Google has integrated video results into their search - and have a dedicated search sites for Video. But I think this one from Live Search is good: You get to see lots of videos in one go - and preview them without actually leaving the search results site.
Hey, not bad.
Do people need this? I surely do since I tend to multitask and want things done in a jiff.
I wonder though when are they going to roll this one out.
And when will they make other people know more about these pretty powerful stuff?
C'mon, guys. Just because you got something good you can't relax and say "they'll come". Do some marketing - for once, be a marketing company. You've made the first step towards making great strides in improving the search experience - and you may have stumbled upon something that could be useful to people. Get them on the bandwagon if they are not yet.
It's time that we tell people how good and consumer-centric Microsoft is.
