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November 17, 2006Maybe Microsoft Live Search isn't so badSo I have made no bones about the fact I prefer Google over Live search. It drives some MS people just batty. But the reality is that the relevance data in Google is just that much better due to the fact they have more history. Google is currently doing a better job there.... although to be fair Live has been catching up quickly. And of course, Google Groups search ROCKS... and is something MS just ain't doing. I spent yesterday at Microsoft meeting with the SBS and Centro teams. At one point Kevin Beares showed me an interesting feature in Live search that has me rethinking its use. With Live search, you can write macros which can be saved and used by the community. Kevin talked about a special SBS community one he built that allows for a SBS community search which returns WAY MORE relevant data than a generic search. WAY COOL. After seeing Kevin's demo of the macro search, it got me to thinking. If the Live team added a few things this could be a KILLER feature. One of my favorite tools at Technorati is their watch list. It allows me to search for certain keywords and have the results return in an RSS feed for me. In this way I can find new blogs that talk about things that interest me. And it works well. Live Macro needs this. Imagine Kevin's tool for a second. If I could use his macro, and then attach the keyword of "Cougar", my RSS reader will tell me when anyone in the SBS community talks about Cougar. I don't have to go looking for it. It will come to me. And instead of searching millions of feeds, I would be searching a subset of what I believe is useful. I made my own macro for msmvps.com, which returns relevant data FASTER than their server. A faster way to search through Susan's posts. :) This is the type of vision I believe Robert Scoble would have wanted to see Live do. Subscribe to a macro search result. It would replace many of the watch list items I have at Technorati right now, and give an entirely new use to Live search. Hey Robert, wanna use your influence to let the Live team know about this? I think it would be a killer feature request. Posted by SilverStr at November 17, 2006 12:01 PM | TrackBackComments
I'm pretty sure it already does that. When you search for something, the "rss feed" icon lights up for me and I can subscribe to the search as an RSS feed. Posted by: Dean Harding at November 19, 2006 02:29 PMOMG. That does work. Thanks Dean! Posted by: Dana Epp at November 21, 2006 02:09 AMWell you can do this for a long time in google blog search. I subscribe to many rss feed off my blog search. Posted by: Deepak at November 28, 2006 11:53 AM |
 
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