Microsoft has launched a new layout for http://www.live.com/. What do you think?, the previous layout was just from September last year. |
What's new. Last time I used live was in last July :D |
Looks nice, as did the old one, but I'll say what I said last time, the homepage looks like its a different theme to the search results, I'd prefer a consistant UI.
Secondly, the results are not to my liking, whether they are more accurate or not I'm not sure, but for me, they don't ever provide what I'm looking for. |
Wow, I clicked the Personalised Page to access my existing Personalised Page, and I'm taken to the old layout. And the "More" dropdown has a "See all..." link and thats it. What good is that? |
does anyone USE live? Ever hear someone say, "Oh just Live it for the address." (Or, Yahoo Search It for that matter, tho I think results for Yahoo Search and Google are comparable.) |
Lots of people use live Brinkie!!! Like all tose clever people who have vista and never changed their homepage from MSN or their default search from Live in IE7 |
Can someone make a screenshot? All live.com sites are blocked here, at work... |
Brinke I expect there's a few Anti-Google protesters and M$FT Fanbois that use it. Although admittedly everyone I know says "Google it"
TOMHTML http://cheesemonger32.googlepages.com/Screenshot-LiveSearch-MozillaFirefox.png |
I bet there are lots of people who search for google in the default IE7 search (possibly live) and then do their real search on google itself. |
James: I think Google is well known worldwide, and many people know it's the best search engine, so once people get Live by default, they'll type in their address bar google.com and make it as their homepage. |
Average user : "Where is this fucking 'Search' button???" |
I've blogged a bit about this – most particularly on why the new design is going to fail, at http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2008/05/live-searchs-ne.html
It's a poor imitation of Google and as such won't appeal to anyone. Moreover, the design forces people to think in the way in which the designers want or expect people to think, which is never a good idea. |