{"id":436,"date":"2006-11-22T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2006\/11\/does-world-really-need-another-search.htm"},"modified":"2007-03-09T10:05:03","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T10:05:03","slug":"does-world-really-need-another-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/11\/does-world-really-need-another-search.htm","title":{"rendered":"Does the world really need another search engine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--116423577202425881--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.live.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/windowslive.jpg?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Windows Live\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTwo of London&#8217;s free newspapers for commuters (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/\">Metro<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelondonpaper.com\/\">The London Paper<\/a>) are featuring wrap-around ads for Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Live <a href=\"http:\/\/search.live.com\/\">Live Search<\/a> today.  The front page is almost entirely blank, save for a search box which asks &#8220;Does the world really need another search engine?&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/anothersearchengine.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Does the world really need another search engine?\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/\">Google<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo!<\/a> have once again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comscore.com\/press\/release.asp?press=1070\">extended their lead on Microsoft<\/a> in the search engine rankings and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comscore.com\/press\/release.asp?press=1081\">Google has become the most visited website in the UK<\/a>, I have to wonder if Microsoft should be asking themselves the same question.  It&#8217;s all very well emphasising the extra features that Live Search offers &#8211; like controlling the size of the results on a single page, hovering over images for more detail, providing bird&#8217;s eye views to accompany maps and directions (all very well for pilots and birds, but not so useful on the ground) and personalising results; however, of all organisations, Microsoft should be well aware that it&#8217;s not necessarily the product with the best feature set that gains the most market share.  Having said that, Google came from nowhere a few years back &#8211; and who uses the pioneering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lycos.com\/\">Lycos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.excite.com\/\">Excite<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altavista.com\/\">Altavista<\/a> search engines today?<\/p>\n<p>Live Search is certainly impressive and Microsoft&#8217;s ads state that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;To us, search is in its infancy.  This is just the start.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe Live Search will push Google into doing some work to integrate their disparate Web 2.0 applications (many of which seem to be in a perpetual beta state); in the meantime, the message seemed to be lost as I observed commuters at <a href=\"http:\/\/search.live.com\/results.aspx?q=canary+wharf\">Canary Wharf<\/a> &#8211; one of London&#8217;s major commercial centres &#8211; simply flicking past the four full page ads to get to the news.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.live.com\/\">Give Live Search a try at live.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of London&#8217;s free newspapers for commuters (Metro and The London Paper) are featuring wrap-around ads for Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Live Live Search today. 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