Microsoft s Search A Lot Better Than It Used To Be

Microsoft's Search A Lot Better Than It Used To Be

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Titan Quest Forum	Nintendo Wii	Graphics Forum
Halo 3 Forum	Mac Software

By: Robert Scoble
2006-10-12

Damn, I saw some people talking about how much better Microsofts Live Search was and I just tried a few searches and, indeed, its a lot better than it used to be. .

Link: Microsoft Live Search

Theyve significantly closed the gap with Google. How does it do on your favorite searches? I even picked out a random Windows API call and did a search on that. MSN used to always suck on those. But Live.com gets it right.

Its also fast and the UI is nice. I think it matches Google all the way around on search.

Google is still slightly better on some searches (I think the result set on Google for Scrapbooking Blog is better than that on Live.com for Scrapbooking Blog, for instance). But, its much harder to tell the difference than it used to be. Live.com even does well with all my stock quotes (it used to be far less consistent than Google) and on my ego search for scoble Live.com is much better than Google (Live.com lists my current blog first, Google lists my blog that I havent posted to for a year first).

How does it do on your searches?

Now, the problem is, if Microsoft matches Google, who will switch away from Google? I wont. The trust Ive built since the late 1990s of searching Google many times a day without a problem is going to be a very hard thing to beat. To get me to switch Microsoft will have to be better than Google.

How about you? Does Microsoft (or Yahoo or Ask) have any hope of getting you to switch your default search engine?

Tag: Microsoft Live

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Robert Scoble is the founder of the Scobleizer blog. He works as PodTech.net's Vice President of Media Development.

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