Today I found this great feature available with Windows Live Search - that's the contextual suggestions that this search engine gives to you, when it finds something relevant to what you are looking for. For example, I was looking for "mazda3" and here is what I've got:
Now, as you see, on your right side there is a bunch of sites, among which are reviews and different trims of Mazda3.
But to go further more, I want to touch base here with another interesting and very cool service, part of the Windows Live - namely "Live Q&A". If you just switch real quick to it, you will se the following:
What this service brings to you is some user opinions and real-life experiences related to your search pattern. What this service brings to you is very obvious from this service motto: "Live QnA connects you to the best answers from the right people.". So what I've got here is a rated list of user reviews on the Mazda3, which may prove to be very useful to me.
Another very cool service part of Windows Live is Image. Besides its sleek way of doing previews while hovering a single image, it has many other useful gadgets such as the zoom-in/out panel at the top to control image sizes, the scratchpad (where you can drag & drop images). The search capabilities are fully integrated and are very sophisticated. For example, if you do a search on "John Kennedy", here is what you've got:
What's actually interesting here is the right side pane, which displays what? yeah, that's right - related people to John Kennedy. Sweet! Needless to say that the search is not just keyword based, but it does some relevancy checking and is contextual based.
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