Live Search: New Home Page Design Released

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Chris — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:07:20 GMT

still a matter of luck. I seem to have 50/50 good and bad results.

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rgonzruiz — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:34:28 GMT

I like the idea of being able to customize it and have a kind of rss feeds map/image, something dynamic that gives you personalized information in a hotspot manner...

On a different, yet more important note, I tried to start using Live Search instead of Google about two or three months ago and found out that the search results were really out of touch with was I expected, making a really dissatisfying experience and confirming the fact that google is the seach king....

But I just tried it today again and the results were very much on par with Google's, even the look and feel was pretty much the same (shamefully, though reasonably understandable if you want to take a market share away from Google)...

Has there been a recent change in the search engine that I didn't read about? Or is it still a matter of luck regarding the keywords you use? Anyone else have an opinion regarding this Google vs Live Search experience?

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quikboy — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:51:47 GMT

Nice touch and all, but is there a way to disable it? I couldn't find one. I just want an option for a clean search box page.

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CalumJR — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:26:18 GMT

It would be good if they do change it for special occasions.

Let's hope they have that idea down somewhere! :D

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jamiet — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:11:02 GMT

damaster, alber1690, spot on. I'm looking forward to seeing what they put on there for public holidays. Shame they missed 4th July, what's the next one? Halloween?

-Jamie

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Alber1690 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:31:35 GMT

I hope this becomes as much a trademark as the Google logo redesigns that take place every "special occasion."

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electroem — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:37:19 GMT

yet another homepage redesign?

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damaster — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:58:32 GMT

@derviskemal: rather than customisable, I'd rather them to change it on certain "special" days or celebrations, similar to how google changes its logo (but this is far better).

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Chris — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:42:13 GMT

glassuser: agreed - some users (like yourself, Kip and Jamie) have been seeing it for a while. This marks the rollout to the en-us market, so now its available to all :)

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Ryan — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:29:13 GMT

I found 3 or 4 hotspots in the picture. Very appealing design, I must say.

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SteveBallmer — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:19:14 GMT

Naturally superior work!

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derviskemal — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:54:06 GMT

i like it and i hope that they do roll it out to all regions, eventually though i would like the images to be customisable so that i can choose a different one.

Overall though it is something unique to Live Search :)

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glassuser — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:49:23 GMT

Dude that was up all day yesterday.