live.com is slooooow
, Microsoft’s latest branding experiment (read: their new Passport+MSN+whatever) features a new version of their search engine. Some time ago they promised they’ll be the leading search engine this year…
It’s unuseable. They’ve packed it with so much AJAX that it’s so slow I can’t really use it on my computer (which has 1.8 GHz). I’ll remain a Google user. Without even looking at your results, just because I can’t really use your fancy schmansy scrolling CPU-eating thingy.
Some fun from March, Reuters (original article no longer available):
“What we’re saying is that in six months’ time we’ll be more relevant in the U.S. market place than Google,” said Neil Holloway, Microsoft president for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
More relevant with Vista users that is, probably. ;-)
If you want to see an AJAX-using search engine which is useable and useful, try Exalead. They have thumbnails, clustering, and still a pretty nice interface.