New Live.com Search

Rama Krishna Vavilala

I was looking at the live.com[^]'s new search feature with the sliders. :rolleyes: As a developer I can say WOW on the way the have developed it. But as a user I am not sure whether that is what I want. Is it really necessary to use AJAX everywhere just becuase you can? What do you guys think?

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Steve McLenithan

The AJAX is impressive, but as a user I hate it. My browser should not be spiking my CPU just so they can have a fancy GUI.

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Varindir Rajesh Mahdihar

looks cool, too bad it froze up on me, LMAO i moved a few things around, then I clicked on gadgets to open it, and it froze like a pig on a skewer.

Varindir Rajesh Mahdihar

do a search and leave the field blank.

Shog9 0

The image search has some nice touches. I really like it. The rest just seems gratuitous. Loading results on the fly is nice enough, but why exactly was it necessary to use fancy custom scrollbars? ----

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Shog9 0

Ohyeah, that's what i've been missing from search engines all these years... unecessary modal pop-ups. ----

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Judah Gabriel Himango

Steve McLenithan wrote:

My browser should not be spiking my CPU

I've never understood this kind of thinking. If you're not using the browser, its not going to spike, meaning you're not really interfering with other apps. And if it spikes for just a split second, nothing's going to be sluggish. Are you trying to preserve CPU cycles for some reason? :rolleyes: I fail to see the big deal, but I'm sure you can enlighten me. As for the feature itself. It's cool but useless and nonstandard. That said, never underestimate the importance of eye candy, polish, and the cool factor. Its something that immediately draws the notice and awe of users, something that can't be said of stability or features (and no, I'm not advocating eye candy over those things).

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Nish Nishant

Thanks Rama. Regards, Nish

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Judah Gabriel Himango

Shog9 wrote:

but why exactly was it necessary to use fancy custom scrollbars?

I think I may have just discovered the reason. The advertisements on the right will update depending on what search results are currently in view. This would've been rather difficult or impossible to do, I think, had a standard scrollbar been in place. Of course, I'm not a web developer so maybe I'm wrong about how difficult that is...

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Warren Stevens

Shog9 wrote:

modal pop-ups.

What a Horrendous design. :wtf::wtf::wtf: X|

Shog9 0

I doubt it was easy either way. The only thing i could come up with was that with their custom scrollbar, they can control the speed at which you can scroll - so results loaded on demand are always available by the time you get to where they should be. Of course, this is also what makes it so frustrating, since the scrolling speed (especially with the mouse wheel) seems "off". ----

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David Stone

Feeling a little slow today, Nish? :rolleyes:

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Steve McLenithan

Judah Himango wrote:

I've never understood this kind of thinking.

Anyone that multi-tasks should think about it. My CPU should NOT spike to 100% because of some damn website. Burning a disc, music, etc etc. There's nothing I hate more than the feeling of UI lag.

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Nish Nishant

David Stone wrote:

Feeling a little slow today, Nish?

I went to live.com first, and didn't find anything fancy like he said, and thought there must be some other search specific URL. Then he replies with live.com again, so I thanked him for that though I still couldn't find anything very impressive. Someone posted another link here a few weeks ago, and that was much cooler than this. The windows could be dragged anywhere, just like on your desktop. live.com restricts window positioning to rectangular dock regions - which sucks! That other site allowed overlapping windows - and was seriously impressive. Regards, Nish

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David Stone

That's alright. Go drink some Espresso. ;) (Just make sure Smitha didn't mix up the salt and sugar again.*) *Sorry Smitha. But you know you're never going to hear the end of this.

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Nish Nishant

David Stone wrote:

Go drink some Espresso.

Having a Latte (I think it's one anyway) right now :-)

David Stone wrote:

Just make sure Smitha didn't mix up the salt and sugar again

Ravi Bhavnani gave her Salt and Pepper shakers, and told her to keep me alive till I get to attend a PDC someday :-) Regards, Nish

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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

till I get to attend a PDC someday

Ah. This last PDC was a crapload of fun. I hope to be able to attend the next one (whenever that is) too. :)

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Judah Himango wrote:

never underestimate the importance of eye candy, polish, and the cool factor.

It's one of the main (and underrated, especially by techies) reasons, IMO, why MS has been so successful. Many technically superior things have been either ugly and/or difficult to use. Kevin