Beta offerings of Windows Live Search and Live.com debuts in Asia
07 Jul 2006
Mumbai: Microsoft today launched beta versions of its Windows Live Search service and new search homepage, Live.com, across the Asia Pacific region as part of an additional roll out to 33 new countries around the world. The service features an innovative new user-interface and rich and powerful organisational tools designed to place the user in control and help people simply find what they need, from anywhere.
According to Alex Stewart, Regional Director for Microsoft's MSN and Windows Live business in Asia Pacific, "Outside of email, Search is the most popular online activity in Asia. It's become a ubiquitous part of the web and yet there is still huge potential in terms of what it can deliver for Asia's netizens. We are thrilled to be launching the Windows Live Search and Live.com betas in Asia. These services are core to our strategy and we believe that the innovations unveiled today deliver an outstanding level of power and simplicity to search". Indian users can log on at
Windows Live Search features a new interface and precision tools such as search preview, a detail slider bar that increases the level of result information on the results page, and smart scroll that enables people to view search results without moving from page to page.
Services that help people customise their search results by preference and extensive search categories. Microsoft says that all news search, and RSS feeds are some of the search categories unveiled today with new categories including image search, MSN shopping, MSN spaces and local search will be introduced over the coming months.
The company says Live.com, the customisable search home page for Windows Live, includes a new design together with features to help consumers quickly customise their Windows Live Search with several new, advanced search services, such as the ability to add persistent search results to one's Live.com home page, subscribe to RSS feeds directly from search results, and view search results in the advanced contextual format.