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MicrosoftJust upgraded the blog so apologies for any downtime. Anyway, quick post to exclaim: live.com is really quite useable! I know, I know, I work for Microsoft so that's why I'm saying live.com is worth visiting... right?
No, not really. I don't do PR... :) Here is why I'm recommending it:
- The background picture is entertaining and often leads me to keep in touch with latest news (like the latest results from the Olympics)
- Search results are really consistent with what I expect to see (YMMV)
- Its FAST - the background image comes up fast, the search results are fast!
- Image search is really fun to use (try searching for "Lolcatz")
- Ever searched for "Rumour"? Its a misspelling (in US), live.com automatically corrects it. A bunch of other auto-correct features are subtle but useful.
Of course, I wish some other things should be fixed:
- There are links on the page to "MSN", "Live Search" and "Windows Live". Huh?
- Related searches returns wacky results sometimes (I ego-searched and got back a random list of people). At least explain how those were generated.
- This is a nit for the map feature: it doesn't render the UI usefully in my 1024 x 768 Lenovo. I guess mapping is a high-res feature!
So try out live.com. Oh yeah, I heard they have a cashback scheme--haven't tried it personally so can't comment on that.