Live.com Rebuilds and Rebrands

While I suspect that most Slaw readers have Google as their home page or their default search engine, young lawyers need to be reminded that every search engine has its limits, and that different engines will generate different results. The page you really need may be invisible.

While over the years I’ve migrated engines – anyone remember hotbot or Northernlight ? – my current alternate tends to be Microsoft’s live.com. It’s a trailing third behind Google and Yahoo.

News today of major changes:

a Best Match feature resulting from a souped-up algorithm

– for more analysis see an excellent piece on the future of search here

a new brand – sources say it’ll be called Kumo

running “search history” module

categorized listings and

a new font

Apparently, Steve Ballmer will discuss the Live Search update this Wednesday at the MVP Summit.