Recently, Microsoft launched their new “live search” that is intended to be the evolution of MSN search and would try to catch a bigger market piece from its competitors. The search market is actually led by Google(49.2%) and Yahoo(23.8%)*.
This launch is really Microsoft-like (non innovative), you can judge by yourselves the similarity with Google. They copied every single thing! Maps, answers (Yahoo initiative), picture search, video, academic etc…
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The only new thing is seen in the image search section, you can add the pics you like to a basket, and once you roll-over a picture, you get more useful information. The problem is that it still has a lot of bugs; it’s slow and more complicated.
This is one of the steps until VISTA’s launch. The idea of Microsoft is to have a full integration with the LIVE and Windows platform, this way gaining more users. I think that this new copy-Google approach of Microsoft is not working, products lack of personality and in the rush to add features they are making the products useless.
* According to Nielsen NetRatings on Web search engine rankings for July