Windows Live Search: Where'd the good site go? | The Coffeehouse

Jason Cox
Longtime C9 Lurker

Maybe this happened a few days ago and I just noticed right now, but it appears the Windows Live folks have updated Windows Live Search on Live.com... Now instead of the awesome AJAX site that once graced Live.com, there's just a MSN-Search-like site.

Anyone know if they're planning on bringing the old site back?

daSmirnov

Although it was cool, it was a tad too slow and a bit overly complex. I like the change. It has a chance of being my default search now. Smiley

Rowan
Look, no errors.

Looks like common sense prevailed once again. Nice big readable text and more real estate for the results, that's how it should be.

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

Wow, that's fast! Just set the number of results to 50 per page and we're almost as good as the AJAX one (I liked that it was a continuous stream of results, instead of pages)...

BryanF

I think it's a great improvement, though I would like to see the return of the continuous scrolling results rather than paged. It is possible to get the same effect without the somewhat awkward custom-built scrollbar control.

JohnAskew
9 girl in pink sweater

Excellent. New home page for my IE.

andokai

BryanF wrote:
I think it's a great improvement, though I would like to see the return of the continuous scrolling results rather than paged. It is possible to get the same effect without the somewhat awkward custom-built scrollbar control.

That's actually quite cool.

I don't see why they didn't give yu the option like they did with Windows Live Mail to go with the plain version or the AJAXy one.

z33driver

Instead of one or the other, why not offer a configurable option to let users choose whether to use the AJAX version or this one?

edit: Duh, I just said the same thing andokai did

DCMonkey
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey will destroy you!

I hated the AJAX version. This one is pretty nice so far.

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The Ajax version had one critical problem: if you clicked the back button from one of your search results, you'd end up at the very beginning of the results. At least this way you can keep your spot!

Charles
Welcome Change

I like it! The AJAX-heavy version was just to, well, AJAX-heavy... AJAX is cool, but it should be used when really needed, not just to show how AJAXy a site can be...

Nice work team!
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Jaz
From the depths of Wales I come

true, but i kinda liked having the unlimited scroll.

LaBomba
Summer

Now this is more like it! Smiley

that was one thing they had going on google, the continous scrolling...see what happens...

harumscarum
out of memory

Now I might start using it.

A quick test on a search for EPL:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=epl
http://beta.search.live.com/results.aspx?q=EPL&FORM=LVSP

well at least the AJAX is gone. Tongue Out

questron

I think they did a great job with the new design.
It's finally replacing my Yahoo!-Startpage now. I only wish the Live-Mail-Module would work more often than once a week.

yman

I must say that I prefer it this way. The Ajaxy version was damn slow and it slowed down my FireFox.
Atleast they still have the sweet search images handling Smiley