Microsoft Rolls Out Revamped Search Engine

E Commerce Times reports on the roll out of Microsoft's new search engine Windows Live Search which marks a shift in Microsoft strategy away from software towards online products.

The key goal with the new search engine will be to give people more control over how they search for information. New features include:

(1) A search slider bar that offers previews of data in various forms, perhaps just the Internet address of a Web site, or a snippet of text. As the slider is adjusted, more or less information appears.
(2) A "smart scroll" function that displays all search results at once rather than on separate pages.
(3) Various ways to view pictures, as small "thumbnail" shots or full-sized images.
(4) An ability for users to save their search parameters as macros that can be run to perform the same search in the future. Microsoft promise that people will be able to publish their search macros so people with similar interests can use them.

All exciting stuff lets see what it looks like. The market will decide!!!

Jim Williams www.ju2.com