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diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Thu/tafiti.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Thu/tafiti.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 8437ea0..0000000 --- a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Thu/tafiti.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ -Microsoft recently released an experimental search product, dubbed [Tafiti][2], which combines the company's Live Search offering with Silverlight. According to Microsoft Tafiti, which means "do research" in Swahili, is "designed to help people use the Web for research projects that span multiple search queries and sessions by helping visualize, store, and share research results." - -Primarily Microsoft seems to intend Tafiti as a means of showing off Silverlight and indeed, Tafiti has a gorgeous and slick front end. Search results occupy the main portion of the frame and the right hand side holds a "shelf" where you can save search results via drag-and-drop. - - -On the left is a carousel which allows you to cycle through the various search result options -- Web, Images, etc -- which can also be saved. All of your saved search results can be shared through Windows Live Spaces. - -Tafiti has a great interface and actually makes Silverlight seem like a compelling platform, which is ostensibly the purpose of the project. But unfortunately Tafiti is tied to Live Search, which, let's face it, is a pretty poor search engine next to Google. In my tests Tafiti was dog slow and didn't return nearly as many relevant results as Google or Yahoo. - -And while Tafiti certainly delivers on the eye candy and interface design level, as Google has so decisively demonstrated, users just don't care about fancy interfaces when it comes to searching for things on the web -- we want speed and simplicity. - -Still, Tafiti is a nice preview of Silverlight and we're looking forward to seeing what else developers come up with. - -[via [Liveside][1]] - -[1]: http://www.liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2007/08/21/microsoft-launches-tafiti-search-and-silverlight-experiment.aspx -[2]: http://www.tafiti.com/
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