Live.Com better than Google

Interesting news on Microsoft, but you know this means war. It is the first direct hit put together by Microsoft with the only purpose of having a piece of what Google has right now: popularity on the web tools.

... and it is so obviously looking for the popularity: check out the features they added on live.com
- everything is AJAX
- everything is graphically enhanced
- drag & drop to organize / customize your page
- hints all over the place
- RSS all over the place
- search is faaast
- results are grouped in "web", "images", "news", "local" and "feeds"
- you can select a "macro" for your search out of so many pre-defined ones
- depending on your choice, you can display more or less sneak preview out of the information that was retrieved
- there will be no "pages" of results, but all results in one page with a "smart" scroll that gathers via AJAX technology the "next" set of items
- text adds on the left
- search within each site listed


http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/49249.html