Comments on: Microsoft Announces Upgrades to Live Search, Including “Blended Search”

By: 100iso.it: Google vs. Resto del Mondo

100iso.it: Google vs. Resto del Mondo — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:45:35 +0000

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By: Andy Gongea

Andy Gongea — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:25:43 +0000

Nice work. Rumble in the search engine jungle. I like live.com – good and powerful and most of all – CLEAN

Jorge I do not know what is you problem with the interface but I think that the visual line in live.com is very good. Anyway with Ask.com and Live.com boosting the features the search engine is getting very interesting.

By: Omadsense

Omadsense — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:42:33 +0000

I think people have the wrong idea – it’s not about MSN being good enough to dump google and switch over – but that it is on the road to competing more effectivly.
Competition works to the benefit of all.
Plus I’ve noticed that I am getting more traffic coming from MSN so, isn’t it really about getting more traffic – be it google, msn or both……

By: Jorge

Jorge — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:40:16 +0000

Wow. It’s as accurate as Google used to be…before the splogs and AdSpam sites took over Google’s index.
If only it didn’t have such a terrible interface…

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:54:46 +0000

Hmmm…Interesting, that blended search sounds a bit like Mahalo.

By: Ray Burt

Ray Burt — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:54:07 +0000

“what it claims” — your bias shouldn’t be so obvious, eh? You don’t use this phrase with other comapny announcements…

By: sneaky snake

sneaky snake — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:00:14 +0000

Sneaky Microsoft have Natural language search…

By: Mark Alan Effinger

Mark Alan Effinger — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:34:07 +0000

I’ll have to play with this a bit.

We are launching a Universal/3D Search marketing platform next Monday, and I’m curious if MSN results ‘respond’ in the same way as Google and Ask.com in terms of blended results.

So far Ask.com is doing the best job of organizing the results. Very pretty and navigable, though the Ajaxiness of it is a bit funky in the beginning.

Nice call, and thanks for keeping us “on the edge”.

Mark Alan Effinger
http://www.RichContent.tv

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:06:16 +0000

“a search index four times larger than before”

When was the last time Google advertised the size of their search index? Does it even matter anymore?

By: Ash

Ash — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:06:15 +0000

Nice coverage Mark. Thanks,

http://www.Congoo.com- Congoo Vertical News Communities

By: Lipo Network

Lipo Network — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:39:08 +0000

Cool but I don’t see results like that when I use it (the blended results). I just get text.

Isn’t http://www.live.com sufficient?

I turn to MS for all my web searching needs, and then to Goog if I can’t find them at MS first.

By: Ryan Merket

Ryan Merket — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:50:14 +0000

Cool AJAX, drag n drop, etc. But it doesn’t differentiate enough from Google from me to switch. Need something ground breaking.

By: Mark Hendrickson

Mark Hendrickson — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:20:50 +0000

#4 – Mark: Good catch, thanks.

By: Web

Web — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:17:49 +0000

The bottom line is the relevancy of the Organic Algos-

and Live just is not that relevant by today’s standards.

It SERPS are about as relevant as Google was in 2000.

But – in their favor – the Video, Images and News Links are just as relevant as Google’s. However, MSN has a casual search user base, and it is questionable whether the majority even use any of those vertical search alternatives

BTW: one link on the post is pointing to the wrong URL

By: Textbook Case

Textbook Case — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:00:44 +0000

‘Blended Search’ also sounds vaguely reminiscent of Amazon ECS ‘Blended Search’.

By: EmpireOfLight

EmpireOfLight — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:51:52 +0000

Thanks, I’ll stick to google…is any of this at all relevant?

By: Ritu

Ritu — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:46:37 +0000

Is Microsoft Live Search and Tafiti the same thing? Personally, I think Ask.com will come out as a winner, well yeah not soon but in a couple of years. They have made some major changes to their site and I see them as one of the search engines that are trying hard to get their share of the market.

Also about Microsoft live search, “blended search” and google’s search “universal search” is it a copy with just a different name from Microsoft just like the “sidebar” in Vista that is similar to Apple’s “widgets” wondering