A couple weeks ago I heard about Tafiti, MSN’s new search/research project, but hadn’t had the time to really check it out until last night. Visually, I think it’s really cool…even a bit Vista-like. But from a functionality standpoint, I’m not sure I see anything all that ground-breaking about it.
That might not be very fair considering the limited amount of time I’ve spent using it. I’ll also admit that I haven’t put much creative thought into how I could apply this in the “real world,” but whatever.
In all honesty, I’m just happy to see that MSN is still out there duking it out in an attempt to regain some of their lost market-share in the search space. Ron mentioned in a previous post that he’d love nothing more than to see another engine compete with Google and I definitely share that opinion. I don’t know that Tafiti will be the one, but at least MSN hasn’t given up!
You’ll need to download Searchlight to use Tafiti (which you’ll be prompted to do immediately) and I’d recommend doing yourself a favor by reading through the FAQ before you take it for a spin. If you want to save information on the “shelf” you’ll also need to have an active LiveID.
I’d love to know what other people think about this and how they’re using it to their advantage.
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Ok, i gave it a go. Fancy in appearance. Results seem a little more “positive” than gew-gle. I don’t like having to install crap to use it, but hey, it’s Microsoft and they want to own everyone.
The coolest part is the “tree”. I mean, all it’s doing is putting all the search results into a leaf/limb of a tree. You can shrink the tree or grow the tree, which is basically the number of results. But pretty cool.
My opinion…weak. I think the best search is the less tricked up. I’d rather use google than ms. dewey and she’s nice to look at. She just makes me search things that I don’t need to.
wicko
That google is tuff to bet it got every thing that aperson in business would want . But don’t get me wrong I like MS also I think that they have your best interest at heart . They have great presentation and they have fast downloads.
They have what you want for the life style you chose . How ever you chose to run your business, they got it .
I did not know about tifiti……
thanks for the information.
and found it cool…
will have to use it a lot to comment more on it
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