10 pts to interested_party's post and a 9.5 to geroniku.

It's www.live.com for Microsoft search, and it's very simple and quick just the search box and the results are just text with links. Not that I use it, I'm one of the two people that still use Altavista..... Don't ask why, I'm just weird !

quite simply put Google doesn't thrash my eyeballs with preponderous amounts of crap. The Yahoo site is a hyperactive womens gossip magazine with a search box carefully hidden; just looking at all the crap blinking and scrolling wears me out. And that's before I've even searched! Their search results are reasonably clean thank God.

Microsoft search is, well, why not just ask the Chinese Communist Party instead? I tried Microsoft search some time back, comparing the results with Google and Yahoo, and MS results were so far off from the other two you'd wonder if it came from a different reality! So, no thanks, not interested in M$. They can keep their irrelevant and censored search to themselves.

Google - simple, fast, reliable.

Yahoo - simple text, but far too much of it, news and full of other junk. Relatively quick for all the crap on it, but it's not a search site, it's a 1-4-all site.

Microsoft Search - what is the address for this site? Is it msn, microsoftseaarch, live, hotmail, what? I'll assume it might be msn, which is a piece of s##t. It's so slow, loading takes forever, it's layout makes it hard to see what you are looking for.

Search needs only a search box, all that other crap is just crap.

Microsoft could be winners if each site, a max of 5-10, was linked on a simple text page with a search box. By this I mean a simple google type layout, and with 5 links to main microsoft sites in the top right corner.

Microsoft's biggest problem is that I don't even know what the web address is for their search site. Ask 10 people who aren't IT bods what the address is for microsoft search, I bet they don't know either. Microsoft sometimes struggle with the basics, just look how they ruined hotmail.