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What’s new with Live Search?
2:50 pm - March 10, 2006 in Live Search
We’ve launched new features designed to put the user in control, while making search tasks easier and more natural on Live Search. There are a host of subtle changes that we hope just make the experience a bit more pleasant, like better description text and improved typography to make quickly scanning results easier. We’ve also tidied up the look of the page from the last version because, well, we look at this page every day, too.
Here’s some of the new functionality that we hope makes working with results easier:
The scope bar that appears after you query provides a natural way to refine the type of information you want about the topic you’ve entered. The level of detail slider is a first step to letting you determine how much information to show on the page. You’ll find, if you slide the peg all the way to the right, the ability to search within a site. With a click, you can do a quick search for something more specific within a given site. Smart Scrolling takes advantage of Ajax to move results fluidly within the page; no more reloading an entire page to get to the next 10 results. We’ve also built an on-the-fly feed reader (in Feeds, click the preview icon next to the feed title) that you can use to preview feeds before subscribing to them (one click adds them to your live.com homepage).
We know that this is just a start and we look forward to improving the search experience based on what our users need to quickly and easily find the answers they are looking for.
Laura Baldwin
GPM MSN Search
What’s new with Live Search?
2:50 pm - March 10, 2006 in Live Search
We’ve launched new features designed to put the user in control, while making search tasks easier and more natural on Live Search. There are a host of subtle changes that we hope just make the experience a bit more pleasant, like better description text and improved typography to make quickly scanning results easier. We’ve also tidied up the look of the page from the last version because, well, we look at this page every day, too.
Here’s some of the new functionality that we hope makes working with results easier:
The scope bar that appears after you query provides a natural way to refine the type of information you want about the topic you’ve entered. The level of detail slider is a first step to letting you determine how much information to show on the page. You’ll find, if you slide the peg all the way to the right, the ability to search within a site. With a click, you can do a quick search for something more specific within a given site. Smart Scrolling takes advantage of Ajax to move results fluidly within the page; no more reloading an entire page to get to the next 10 results. We’ve also built an on-the-fly feed reader (in Feeds, click the preview icon next to the feed title) that you can use to preview feeds before subscribing to them (one click adds them to your live.com homepage).
We know that this is just a start and we look forward to improving the search experience based on what our users need to quickly and easily find the answers they are looking for.
Laura Baldwin
GPM MSN Search
Find a date for the holidays
6:26 pm - April 12, 2006 in Live Search
Betsy Aoki's note: I am using this opportunity to horn in on a blog post with an intriguing subject line and announce my presence on the MSN Search blog. While it seems hard to fill Brady Forrest's shoes (because I think he's at least a men's size 11 and I'm a women's size 8) , the search powers that be over here have asked me to take on the running of this blog.
This team blog stuff is different than working my own blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/betsya . The folks I will be featuring here are the ones in the search trenches and doing the really cool stuff.
And now back to your regularly scheduled Jamie Buckley. :)
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On internet search engines, finding the calendar date for a holiday usually takes a few clicks.
With instant answers, we try to save you time by putting desired information right on the results page. If you're planning a vacation or looking to stay out of the doghouse with gift buying foresight, type a holiday in MSN Search. We’ll show current dates along with a short description at the top of the page.
Some examples:
Thanksgiving
Mother’s Day
Martin Luther King day
We'll be adding some more of these over time. Please try them out and tell us what you think.
Happy holidays,
Jamie Buckley, PM
Instant Answers Team
Find a date for the holidays
6:26 pm - April 12, 2006 in Live Search
Betsy Aoki's note: I am using this opportunity to horn in on a blog post with an intriguing subject line and announce my presence on the MSN Search blog. While it seems hard to fill Brady Forrest's shoes (because I think he's at least a men's size 11 and I'm a women's size 8) , the search powers that be over here have asked me to take on the running of this blog.
This team blog stuff is different than working my own blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/betsya . The folks I will be featuring here are the ones in the search trenches and doing the really cool stuff.
And now back to your regularly scheduled Jamie Buckley. :)
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On internet search engines, finding the calendar date for a holiday usually takes a few clicks.
With instant answers, we try to save you time by putting desired information right on the results page. If you're planning a vacation or looking to stay out of the doghouse with gift buying foresight, type a holiday in MSN Search. We’ll show current dates along with a short description at the top of the page.
Some examples:
Thanksgiving
Mother’s Day
Martin Luther King day
We'll be adding some more of these over time. Please try them out and tell us what you think.
Happy holidays,
Jamie Buckley, PM
Instant Answers Team
Windows Live Academic search
11:37 pm - April 12, 2006 in Live Search
We are pleased to announce the beta release of Windows Live Academic Search (http://academic.live.com).
Academic search helps users to locate information in academic journal content, and allowing them to complete their research and information gathering work more efficiently. At beta, the index focuses on journal content from the subjects of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Physics – we will be expanding the index to additional subjects soon.
Key components of this release focus around enabling the user to have more control over their search experience which ideally leads to finding the information the right information faster.
Key features include:
Preview Pane – Users can preview the full or partial abstract of the individual search results alongside additional metadata about the content. This helps users determine relevance of the content.
Sort by – Provides users with additional ways to view and analyze their search results including sort by key metadata elements including – Author, Date of publication, Journal of publication etc.
Citation – To aid users in taking the information they have found and easily incorporating into their research – we have added a citation export feature. From the preview pane, you can export the data into BibTEx or Endnote format and incorporate it into your bibliography by simply doing a cut & paste.
We are currently working to add Windows Live Search Macros support to Academic search – which will allow you to write your own macros (link to the macro entry on the MSN Search blog) for academic search, and share it with the community.
You can find more information about Academic search and the Academic search team on the Windows Live Academic search Blog (http://spaces.msn.com/academicsearch)
--Thiru Anandanpillai, Product Planning
-- Mike Buschman, Program Management
On behalf of the Windows Live Academic Search team
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Note from Ken Moss, General Manager Web Search : "Just a quick update from the Web search team: we’ve turned the speller back on and after making some code adjustments are continuing to do long term reviews to help ensure an outage like last week won’t happen again. The details of what happened fall into an area we can’t discuss for proprietary reasons, so we can’t talk about it as much as we’d like, but wanted to let you know we are continuing to treat search availability and performance as a top goal. Thanks!”
