Microsoft Live Search Gets Rebirth Design
July 31, 2008 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
The Windows Live Search has gotten another overhaul now, and they’ve taken a little bit of a different slant on what their home page looks like as you can see from the screen shot.
Along with a new background, which I’ve yet to figure out if you can change it to something else you would like. If you hover over certain sections Microsoft kinds of leads you on the types of information you can search for and use with Live Search.
Most of the settings you’ve come to expect from customizing your search experience is available: filtering, language, number of results, etc.
One pretty neat feature of the new search results is that the video search results allow you to play the video preview by just hovering your mouse over the results instead of waiting to click on each video and let it load to start playing.
Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet has more information about what’s happening with Microsoft Live Search and their Live Mesh application. The article also quickly let me know that the search background picture changes and highlights more vertical search results related to the photo that was set as the background.
The photo background thing with the hotspots is nice, but I wish there were an obvious option to turn it off.
And the video search hover-thing has been going on for a long while. It gets results from a lot of sites, which is cool.