AJAX used the right way

ky

3/21/2006 7:18:59 AM #

Hi;

I have read q number of blogs abt live.com, q number out there complaining the slow loading and overuse of ajax on live.com ... btw, what do u think of another ajax-based search engine?, http://askalexia.com , only available with web, image searches, still new in BETA , I think this is a simple google-like UI+speed+ajax?

Mads Kristensen

3/21/2006 8:18:36 AM #

ky, you can get to a clean version of the live.com search engine at http://search.live.com. It is as fast as google, but much nicer. The only "bug" is that the search field is not given focus when you load the page, so you manually have to place the cursor in the field before you can write your search term. I imaging this is because live.com is still in beta and will be fixed.

asklexia.com is pretty darn fast as well, but I see no real difference from google. That fact that it is made with AJAX does not, IMO, make it cool. I do like it though, the same way i like google, not because it is Web 2.0 as it claims to be.

ky

3/24/2006 1:40:33 PM #

thanks for the comments on askalexia.com , something that I don't like live.com is the image search shows NO boundary between result pages , but I guess this is what ajax is supposed to be   btw askalexia.com is now available with video search .... more services will be added

Pelle

3/26/2006 9:12:01 PM #

I think that live.com is even cooler than google.com/ig. The only thing I find a bit worrysome is that it can actually make my browser (IE!) crash? I think the image search is way better than google images!