Microsoft’s new Silverlight platform search engine, Tafiti, is visually interesting and fun to play with.
When you enter a search and click Go the service swirls into action: The search box slides to the top left, and five icons spin into view below it for searching the Web, news sites, images, books, or RSS feeds.
Tafiti sports an animated interface developed by Microsoft’s Silverlight platform – a technology that Microsoft would like to see challenge Adobe’s Flash player.
Instead of sponsored links on the right side of the results, there are five empty shelves. Drag your results onto a shelf to save them in “stacks”; then log in to a Windows Live, MSN, or Hotmail account to see your saved searches the next time you open your browser. You can give your stacks names, send a stack to someone via e-mail, or post it to your Windows Live Space blog.
Play with Tafiti and see what you think…
October 17th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
I especially like the “You’ll need to install Silverlight to experience Tafiti.com” feature!
[Sarcasm]
October 18th, 2007 at 1:02 am
And guess what? There’s no plugin available for Windows 2000.
I don’t think I’ll ever use that site again. It really lacks usability, eg: there’s no possibility to perform a new search in the tree page. Plus the design is ugly (a computergame ad in the background.
October 18th, 2007 at 11:43 am
@TOMAS – Yeah, Microsoft is going to have to overcome that obstacle – somehow. Adobe did it, kinda.
@Robin – I think it’s more to just showcase what Silverlight can do than anything else.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
It really lacks usability, eg: there’s no possibility to perform a new search in the tree page…
March 3rd, 2008 at 3:08 am
Silverlight will never match Flash !! I can bet on it….