Windows Live Search for Mobile Phones launched by Microsoft
Microsoft has released Windows Live Search for Mobile, a search engine that runs on mobile phones. The software giant has also released a Web-based version of Windows Live Messenger that is aimed at mobile phone users.
These two services for mobile phones were released by Microsoft in a very silent mode, without the usual pomp. No official announcement was mad for either product. Apparently, the search client from Microsoft was distributed internally, and employees were permitted to offer the application freely.
Windows Live Search allows the user to access Live Local through an application interface, rather than the usual Web-based client. It is split up into four separate components- a categorical based search, a mapping function, driving directions, and traffic information.
A very unique feature of Windows Live Search for Mobile is the fact that Microsoft has embraced mobile phone application standards.
Microsoft’s Windows Live Search has received instant praise from the Web community. Some people have even said that they feel that the company has outdone Google in many areas.
At present, a Windows Mobile 5.0 version is available. It seems that Microsoft has also produced a J2ME version of the product.
Besides, Microsoft has also posted a new version of its Windows Live Messenger product. “That’s how we came up with the idea of message inbox: you can view and send messages to multiple friends from one page, rather than have to jump between multiple pages and deal with the pretty slow page load times,” Windows Live Mobile product manager Mike Smuga said.
According to Microsoft, its developers have focused on how to make the web-based experience much better in this release.
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