I’ve been WowED here at MIX06 in a presentation that …. nobody seems to be attending. Some of the bar buzz is how hard the LIVE.com team has been working , and it shows.
Obviously there are going to be challenges for the Live custom search. MSN Search still lags in relevance enough that this may compromise it as a tool that will be widely used. They’ll also need integration with adcenter as Google does so effectively with Adsense Search utility.
HOWEVER, this is great UI, navigation, and customization thinking. It’s clean with infinite scroll (brilliant!) and photos that can be adjusted in size as you view them. Also, users can adjust relevancy considerations by a slider – a tool that was buried deep in MSN Search until … now. If this is available as a search customization feature it will make this even a better gadget – not sure if it is.
Is it just me or is this team out to really bring their best stuff? LIVE search and gadgets concepts are are really good. Good enough that if they bring up the relevancy to Google/Yahoo levels on basic search I can see a LOT of developers starting to use LIVE Search in a LOT of applications.
Joe Duck 
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Yes, they do get it. Finally they are able to show the world that they can be a real player in search by leveraging the other strengths in their toolbox. While Yahoo! was the first out of the gate with these types of technologies, Google is far behind the other two of the big three search players and may have a difficult time catching up.
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Good points Giovanni – competition fires up bright people and Google hasn’t had much to compete with in search but that’ll change with Yahoo equal in relevancy and MSN LIVE outgoogling Google in their great UI.
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