One Week with Windows Live Search
Last week, I posted an article about Cuil and how I'm not switching from Google any time soon. As I wrote that piece, I had secretly started using Windows Live Search as my default home page and search tool within Firefox. Live.com has gotten lighter, faster and sometimes faster than Google. I love the home page and Microsoft is really pushing this search as better than Google's offering.
As I said last week, "it's all about results" and Live doesn't deliver. performing nearly 30 searches a day, on average and I'm extremely disappointing. The results are not what I was expecting and searching for a page takes twice as long as it does with Google. Someone looking over my shoulder at iPhoneDevCamp said to me, "wow those results suck" and I agree.
There's not another current search engine that I'm interested in trying. Giving Yahoo! Search might be worth a try but it seems that for the past 10 years, Google has been the leader and no one currently in the search space can compete with that. Furthermore, if a company does launch that gives Google a run for their money, you can bet your ass that Google will buy them out before that newcomer gets a foothold on the market.
