Yesterday at some big-wig conference, Microsoft announced the availability of Windows Live Search beta, a utility designed to help you quickly and easily find the information on the Web that matters most to you.

The new search service offers a new innovative design with relatively rich viewing and organisational tools, decent search categories such as image and local search, and services that help you customise results.

Other core technologies that complement Windows Live Search, including an updated version of Live.com and a Windows Live Toolbar beta, were also released today. These services are now available in the US and in select international markets in which feature availability will vary.

Microsoft says Windows Live Search delivers the results we’re all looking for via a unique design with advanced tools for quickly finding, viewing, organising and previewing search results. Through new features such as search preview, scoping tools, a search slider bar that increases the level of result information on the results page, and smart scrolling that enables people to view search results without moving from page to page, Windows Live Search should be worth a download.

Within Windows Live Search, you can also search across specific search categories, including all-new image search, news search, RSS feeds, e-mail search, local search, and searching of MSN Shopping and MSN Spaces. For example, new viewing capabilities within image search allow you to search across millions of images and receive results that feature infinite scrolling, thumbnail-image-sizing customization, filmstrip view and the ability to see the full image without leaving the results page.

All the Windows Live Search categories will offer the same user experience for viewing and organising results. Windows Live Search will also deliver this unified search experience across all the upcoming Windows Live services, such as Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Mail.

Windows Live Search Macros beta enables people to save and share specific queries and search scopes and customise their search results. Many macros are available today, and macro creation tools will be available in beta shortly.

Advanced protection against phishing and pop-up blocking also help people browse more safely while they search. Additional features of the beta include RSS detection and automatic aggregation to a person’s personalised Live.com home page, capability for customisation so you can choose and arrange only the buttons you want, and tabbed browsing for quicker Web surfing.

The Windows Live Toolbar includes technology from Onfolio, which enables you to save, collect and share any part or the full Web page of the information you discover while searching the Web.

Live.com, the customisable home page for Windows Live, also released a significant upgrade, including a new design and features that help you quickly customise your home page, preview content, create multiple pages based on their interests, and add your favourite content from millions of information sources and RSS feeds.

For the first time, Windows Live Search is now available on Live.com, as are several new, advanced search services that include the ability to add persistent search results to one’s Live.com home page, subscribe to RSS feeds directly from search results, and view search results in the advanced contextual format.

New and updated gadgets are also available, including image search, a clock, Windows Live Favorites, stock quotes and weather. MSN Video and MSN Infopane offer easy access to popular MSN content. Live.com will continue to be updated with new services based on customer feedback. All services are available at http://www.live.com.

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BIOS, Mar 08, 06 | Print | Send | Comments (0) | Posted In Internet