Microsoft has
launched an updated version of
Live Search. Some of the changes will be visible in the user interface, but the company also made a bunch of changes under the hood to make the search engine more useful and reliable.
- Increased the site index by more than 400%
- Improved understanding of query intent
- Auto-spell correction
- Faster page-loads
- Uses more click-stream data to improve page ranking and relevancy
- Improved answers to questions about specific items like weather, images, celebrities, entertainment, maps, or sports
The interface is also a bit cleaner. The search box has moved to the left. The tabs for searching images, video, news have been replaced with text links (which are a bit harder to notice than tabs at first). And the fonts look a little less 1985-ish.
Apparently 40 percent of the searches on Live.com involve entertainment, shopping, health, and local search, so Microsoft has focused heavily on these four areas.
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9-27-2007 @ 12:32PM
ChrisR said...
I think they did a nice job. Looks more and more like the Google results page.
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9-27-2007 @ 5:58PM
AvgJoe said...
They definitely seem to have done a very good job - much much better from what they were
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9-28-2007 @ 8:54AM
josh said...
The new images section is really awesome.
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