Microsoft vs. Google Round 2: Windows Live Search Beta - Live Feeds and Images
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This side works similarly, but instead of ads, there’s a feed preview pane. Click the arrow on the result, and you can see the previews. If you click on results in the feeds section, you are directed to a Live Search cache of a feed entry. There’s a link to see more, which goes to the feed if it all works right. Feed search is something Google hasn’t really tapped into like this. I’m not sure if this is destined for greatness as it is, though. There’s not a good reason to click on Feed instead of Web. All the other parts of the search, like Images and Local, have specific and distinctive purposes for why a searcher might use them. The purpose of Feeds is pretty much the same as using a Web search.
The image search is slightly modified, so let’s take a look at that next.
Image searches are reworked a little too. Be sure to have broadband if you want to use it though. Again, the search engine tries to load all the images on one web page. The detail level slider at the top controls the size of the thumbnails. The side scrollbar works more conventionally. When mousing over an image it expands, like that image of Jessica in the white dress. The zoomed thumbnail gives details such as image resolutions and file size. While there is a link straight to the image’s webpage, clicking on the image itself takes to you a preview of it within the Live Search page.
Before wrapping up and looking at how Live can change search, check out the new gadgets Microsoft has implemented.
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