Live Search adds nice twist to live.com: background picture(s)

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G-Z — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:58:41 GMT

I like the idea and the pics they've chosen.

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Alber1690 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:58:51 GMT

Can't see it either...looks nice though. Most people get entertained by details like that; I know for a fact that some people like to go to Google.com just for their logo.

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quikboy — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:47:42 GMT

If they got rid of the "Get Cashback" ad at the top-right, it would look much nicer.

I also think the search box needs another facelift, esp. the magnifying glass button, and center it on the page.

I hope you get to upload your own images. Just a gimmicky feature, but any optional feature is good.

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Chris — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:59:33 GMT

Vasis: Thanks for the link! Updated the post.

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VasiS — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:18:29 GMT

Wow! that was cool. and this is what i Saw

www.flickr.com/.../o

So, cool.

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CalumJR — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:42:05 GMT

I can't see it either! :( boo! hiss! lol.

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Mephiles — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:39:37 GMT

I'm in the Uk and I can't see it. Umm...

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foaf — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:45:16 GMT

I hate to put a downer on this seemingly nice addition, but isn't the atractiveness of Google as a tool a lot to do with its speed of loading. This image potentially adds a few milliseconds to the search time.

Having said that, a growing proportion of searches are probably carried out in the browser bar, so the homepage becomes less important and can afford eye candy additions.

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jamiet — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:51:30 GMT

Looks really nice but I'm not seenig it here :(

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Alimaggs — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:11:03 GMT

Is it just me or does it seem to take a long time for MS to roll out updates worldwide?

If MS decides to do a "Google Logo" on us every now and then, I'll be delighted to see the Christmas logos rolled out to Europe just in time for New Year ;)

In all seriousness, I'm not seeing the images here (so maybe they're just testing it on certain servers or for certain regions) but I think it's a *great* idea. It keeps it interesting and certainly images based on events would be nice (I'd prefer that to Ask's "pick your own background"). Keeps it fresh, and creates a buzz when a new image is updated.

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Kip Kniskern — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:51:03 GMT

Sorry guys, I have no idea why I get these updates so early. I checked with a few people on IM and nobody had it but me, still up here, though. I really like it. Might even keep folks coming back to see the latest image, or create a buzz around certain images, much like the Google logo does.

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Pratheep — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:41:13 GMT

Even I am not able to see the background picture.

Pratheep

www.aztecsoft.com

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chustar — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:18:15 GMT

<whine> I never see this stuff! Why don't I see it when you guys report new additions? </whine>

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tophtucker — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:48:51 GMT

P.S. BUT I would like to say it's a nice touch and I do appreciate it. Modest progress is still progress.

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tophtucker — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:48:25 GMT

Now it reminds me even more of Ask than it used to. :)

They're gonna need to do a lot more than that to capture search share...