Windows Live Video Search Revealed
A few blogs have been posting about Windows Live Video Search, in beta and not exposed in the regular search.live.com engine. Turns out there’s an alternate version of the Windows Live search engine at beta.search.live.com, one with a few UI changes and the new video search. It has four default tabs (Web, Images, News, Local) and a More drop-down (which is very cool and AJAXy) that lists some more options.
The video search itself is pretty good. The interface is easily the cleanest out there, with neat white boxes containing the title and source of the video, as well as a short description and preview thumbnail. Hit an arrow in the top right-hand corner of the box, and you get even more info, like the resolution, bit rate, country, file size, video format, and genre.
Besides that, the beta search is interesting for one other reason: It works well in Opera, something the regular Windows Live Search doesn’t yet do well with. Read a bunch more at Brady Forrest’s O’Reilly Radar blog and TechCrunch.
