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Stan Beer
Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:24
Microsoft has officially lifted the covers off its Live Search competitor to Google, announcing that the software company is taking its new search product out of beta. However, a quick visit to the www.live.com page will show a site similar to Google's but still with the red Beta tag appended.
At a glance, the site looks pretty similar to Google, minimalist but with less features so far, although there are some intersting ones.
There is a handy feature (although some may consider it an invasion of
privacy) called Local, that allows you to search for the location of
people or businesses using the mapping program Virtual Earth.
Other features include images search, similar to Google's, as well as
news search and a questions and answers search similar to that on
Yahoo. Type in a question and you may get an answer, although the only
one we could get to work was "Who is the world's richest person?"
As far as searches go, the display results are almost identical to
Google's, complete advertising results on the right hand side of the
page.
Live Search looks a lot like a me too effort from Microsoft. However,
the company is very good at picking up on someone else's winning
formula and using its leverage on the desktop to win marketshare.
Whether it can do that to Google is another matter.
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