Live Search Images - Great UI!
In my last post I blogged about Tafiti, a Silverlight interface to Live Search. Meanwhile, "traditional" Live Search has a particularly nice UI IMHO. For an example, follow this link: Leonardo DaVinci. The experience is really nice, you can zoom-in/out on the thumbnails, drag images of interest to the scratchpad and you also get a list of related people on the RHS.
Best thing though is that when you click on any particular image, rather than being taken to its associated page i.e. away from your search results, what happens is that the format of the Live Search page changes to that shown below - you get vertical a ribbon-effect down the LHS with all of the images from the original search, while in the centre pane you see the associated page, which allows you to quickly navigate your way through your search results, all the while being able to drag thumbnails to the scratchpad (which will be available to you when you come back). Nice!
Technorati Tags: Microsoft, Developer, .NET, Windows Live Search, Images, Scratchpad, Leonardo DaVinci
Comments
Anonymous
August 22, 2007
well the ui is nice, but its not very good in finding images. at least when i'm looking for an image of me (and there is exactly one image of me out there), live doesn't find it. google image search, howerver, does. WM_FYIAnonymous
August 26, 2007
Hi Thomas, Thanks for the comment, I passed it on to the dev team, who appreciated the feedback. I think that in general it's over the course of multiple queries that you can judge a search engine for relevance etc., overall I would have to say that Live Search relevance has been good for me. regards, Ronan.