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Article: Microsoft search service: Windows Live Search.(Microsoft Windows Live Search)(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
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- Australian PC World
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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Microsoft is offering some interesting new features in its latest crack at Web search: Windows Live Search. A few of the changes in this beta version seem a little gimmicky, but others offer easy search customisations that could improve your everyday Web searching.
Of all the new features, I quickly came to appreciate Windows Live Search's ability to scroll through seemingly endless search results. Still, in this beta the scrolling felt herky-jerky.
A new feature is a slider control on the top right of the Windows Live Search results that lets you view more or less text in each listing. Unfortunately, there's little actual difference among the three ...