By: David A. Utter | Source: webpronews.com

The new search platform from Microsoft officially debuted at Live.com and will also deliver the search results on the MSN website.

There is a lot to play with on the relaunched Live.com for search fans. Ken Moss from the Live Search team blogged about the new search site and its features.

At the main page, visitors can opt to stick with the simpler search box, or switch to a personalized page that places the search box at the top, and content boxes on the page. By default, weather, news, sports, and entertainment appear on the personalized page.

Users can add or change content as they desire. They can also add pages to Live.com and place different content on each page. Those pages can be viewed in the current browser window by clicking on a page’s tab.

Web search results look much like they always have from Microsoft. Sponsored site results appear on the top and the right side of the page. The Live Search team has borrowed the "Related searches" feature from Ask.com’s "Narrow Your Search" that appears on the right side.

Image search uses the new infinite-scroll window seen in previews of Live.com. The way those results appear can be changed by with a slider control to show more or fewer images in the window. Users can choose to filter the results by sizes from a drop-down menu on the page.

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