I personally think this is going to be a double edged sword with consumers. Cause the more and more I see a need for some kind of thread for something to stay on your machine and track your searching/web browsing habits. But aside from that the features that are going to be pushed on us consumers/users of these search engines are only going to help us get our information faster! So here's some screen shots of my short but amazingly nice experience with MSN Search. It seems Google has set the rules for the battle of the search engines. With Yahoo and MSN playing catch up.
This is what you first see when you visit
http://search.msn.com. I personally don't think the UI is all that BUT...as you can see with the next picture.
There is some cool features to this UI that is not so bad. I personally like their "Search Builder" feature. It seems more useful than figuring out Google's, "Advanced Search" feature. I think MSN wins that category. But that's about it.
This is the settings page, that suppositely saves these settings somewhere, I'm guessing a cookie, in your browsers cache. I think it's cool how it remembers your location. That makes sense!!
I did a search on "heatxsink" just to see what hits on their engine. The results are pretty much the same as what I would see on a Google results page.
But when I scrolled through the results, I noticed that there's an RSS feed associated with the search I made!!! I've been waiting for this feature from google for quite sometime, I hope it comes soon, which I bet it will cause Google doesn't want to fall behind! You can see the results of the RSS feed on my "
home" page, at the bottom.
Something similar to "Google Local", but no where near as useful. I think Google wins this category. I'm sure there will be alot more to come.
