According to the Live Search blog the live search I was complaining about before should be updated. Let's see if its fixed.

I guess the answer is, it depends...

Here is a shot on a search I just did for "your doing it wrong"


Look at the results, the #1 result is from 2003 and doesn't even include my search terms! The 5th result, and the 3rd site returned, is from 2005, and it is a forum post from some second rate hit counter. The post is 2 messages long! Here is what you see if you follow the webstat link:


That is what happens if I go to live.com and search.

However, it looks like I can access the new search if you append &FORM=PRESS. So if you use this query you can see the new and improved results. And they are indeed new and improved. The results are more topical, and they include my search terms. However, you have to either follow a link from a press release with the &FORM=PRESS or you have to know enough to put it on. Anyone who just types live.com, or live.search.com gets the old stuff. I don't know why, but it is typical Microsoft in the past 5 years. Shout about some new, cool thing and then it doesn't work or it is inaccessible.

By the way, here is a picture of the kind of thing I was searching for. I think its funny, and I guess so do the people at this site