Daniel Wissa

This just keeps getting better and better all the time! I’ve now found yet another reason to use Live Search. The Image Search features are really great. Viewing full size images was a very nice idea but here are some even better ones IMO. The scratch pad and the related people panes, VERY NICE. The scratch pad allows you to drag images to the side of the page and build a collection of images from the search results you get and the Related people pane also shows when you search for a person in images, if you seach for…

So Windows Live Search is now Live, and also has new features. I just noticed that there is now an “Only from New Zealand” checkbox that lets you localize the search. It’s good this has now been made avaialbe and surely enough I had to try it out. So I decided to seach for myself and it looks like Windows Live Search knows best! Searching for “Dan” using WLS with only NZ selected returns my blog as the no1 result (yay!) and if I search for “Daniel” on WLS search I also end up on the first page but…

As you can probably tell by now, I’ve been paying a lot of attention to Windows Live generally lately as well as Windows Live Search specifically. This has actually got me thinking about Google again and back again to my Innovation and Creativity post. As you would have read in that post, I mentioned thatI don’t like it whencompanies go out of what they do best to invest in offerings done by other companies and that I think there should always be new ideas …etc butacknowledged thatnew entrants help evolve existing products but here’…

One of the othercool features that Windows Live Search hasthat I’ve been playing with lately is search macros, which allow you to create a sub search engine – the best way to explain this in my words – so basically enabling you to have a context or so for a search. Some of the things you can do is specify a list of sites for the search to work on and even use advanced search queries. Once a macro is defined you can then use this macro as the search engine and use that to search for what you…

While looking through the advanced options of Windows Live Search after my previous post I noticed this Apparently you can customize how the search works, cool idea. Will have a play with this shortly.…

Two of the features that made me like Windows Live Search a lot was the ability to navigate results without having to click on a page number to go to a next page and the ability to customise the depth of the results. It looks like these two features are now gone and I dont see why. Eventhough I can setup Windows Live Search to show upto 50 search results on one page, I still hate that whole pages idea and LOVED the feature in Windows Live Search that overcame that problem. Those two features were the reason I decided…