Windows Live Search goes Live

novus ordo writes "Microsoft has launched the Windows Live Search. Among the reports, Microsoft Search Senior Product Manager, Justin Osmer says that "The beta, and a revision expected in a few months, will challenge market leader Google."" I like the more dynamic image searching tool. It seems really slow- I'm not sure if that's the dynamicness (is that a word?) or just standard launch lag.

Server is too busy

[Opportunist]

*gasp*

We /.'ed MS?

Gotta be glad now they don't operate out of the UK.

Already Slashdotted

[Buzz_Litebeer]

Well, that was an interesting product demo, I got the "server busy" message. At least it wasnt blue.

What is up with the scroll bar?

[Anonymous Coward]

That scroll bar is horrible. Nice UI design Microsoft.

Did they #%^ing kill google?

[Mateo_LeFou]

I searched for "google" and got a long wait, then an error popup

Wow that is SLOW!

[DebianDog]

We /.ed a search engine? or is it this slow by design?

Hmm

[MrShaggy]

MAybe its becuase we are using non-ms browsers?? can you imagine their logs.. stating that the firat 80% was firefox or others?

Already /.ed - Mirror here

[PinkyDead]

www.google.com

I know that's just pure nasty - I just couldn't help it.

/.'ed

[MMC Monster]

Maybe someone should post a coral link. Let off some of the load from MS.

Boobies

[TubeSteak]

Live.com:
Loading results for query boobies
images 1-15 of 3957
6/15 are of the bird

Google.com (SafeSearch Off):
Results 1 - 20 of about 51,700 for boobies (0.07 seconds)
4/20 are of the bird

I think the results speak for themselves.

Site Slashdotted

[Iamthefallen]

Try using Googles cache [64.233.179.104]

Re:Server is too busy

[farlcow]

I just get a "Loading..." message that keeps spinning. I'm pretty sure its just pre-caching the internet for faster searching.

Re:Quick test

[Aspirator]

You'll have to wait for that answer,

I'm still scanning throught the first 1.6 million.

Too lame

[GerbilSocks]

I think Microsoft hired monkeys to build and design this site. It's utter and total crap!

Re:Still waiting...

[alx.slashdot]

Still waiting for it to load....

It worked much faster here but with Internet Explorer. Here's the first search result:

Line: 3
Char: 25698
Error: 'Start.Const.FirstRunMode' is null of not an object
Code: 0
URL: http://www.live.com/

Re:Already /.ed - Mirror here

[1evilmonkey]

Even better, google cache http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:_XnZV4pk0FwJ: www.live.com/+microsoft+live&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&c d=3 [64.233.179.104]

Re:actually... beat this. Google is way more clutt

[lowmagnet]

/me looks in the upper right corner of his browser to the search box.

Yeah, browser search box > *

Even their *own* browser has trouble with it...

[BeBold]

Did anyone else notice this in the source??

        document.write(""); /* normalizes ie and ff, else ie sees an additional top margin */

Seems they have the same problems the rest of us have in building sites that actually work in IE...

Re:miserable failure

[aftk2]

Heh, when I search for that, I just get redirected back to www.live.com. Sure, I think it's because I'm using Safari - but if that isn't interesting commentary, I don't know what is ;-)

Coincidence?

[Anonymous Coward]

I searched for "windows live sucks" and it crashed my browser. No joke.

Anyway, I cannot see why anyone would want to use this over Google. Even if the results were on-par with Google, the user interface is enough to drive you crazy.

vocabulary

[sootman]

I'm not sure if that's the dynamicness (is that a word?)...

Yes, don't worry, it's a perfectly cromulent word. Here's an example sentence: "The dynamicness of the Live search engine embiggens its search ability."

(BTW, am I the only one who has added 'cromulent' to their spellcheck dictionary?)

LIve sucks major arse in firefox

[Anonymous Coward]

Way to go Microsoft, this time you've aimed for the foot and shot yourself in the nads.

Re:From-the-before-the-beginning-of-time dept.

[kabz]

Give him a break, it's Slashdot Rant (beta).