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Ankur Mittal
22-08-2007, 04:53 PM
http://techtoday.110mb.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/tafiti-thumb.png (http://techtoday.110mb.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/tafiti.png) Microsoft has created a new search engine application based on the combination of Live Search and silverlight technology.Here is what the site reads-
Tafiti, which means “do research” in Swahili, is an experimental search front-end from Microsoft, designed to help people use the Web for research projects that span multiple search queries and sessions by helping visualize, store, and share research results. Tafiti uses both Microsoft Silverlight and Live Search to explore the intersection of richer experiences on the Web and the increasing specialization of search.
http://techtoday.110mb.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/tafiti1-thumb.jpg (http://techtoday.110mb.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/tafiti1.jpg) http://techtoday.110mb.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/tafiti-2-thumb.jpg (http://techtoday.110mb.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/tafiti-2.jpg)
Microsoft has added many new features to it.you can blog it,search the feeds,the news,the books and many other features.
This would be surely a boom in the field of search engines so be sure to look at Tafiti atleast once.Here is the link- http://tafiti.com (http://tafiti.com/)
deepak.krishnan
22-08-2007, 07:59 PM
it has great looks man... superb... nyway thanx for the link
Gigacore
22-08-2007, 08:31 PM
thanks for the link, good info too. looks like its a second search engine from microsoft. have to wait and see what it can do :)
Third Eye
22-08-2007, 08:58 PM
Superb
sandeepk
22-08-2007, 09:07 PM
Very nice looking...
koolbluez
22-08-2007, 09:37 PM
needs silverlight... i hate installin sw else for viewing sites!!! Flash & java were necessities :-x
saipothuri
22-08-2007, 10:16 PM
Good piece of information Thank u
Cool G5
22-08-2007, 10:19 PM
Looks great.
Got to try it.
kalpik
23-08-2007, 08:57 AM
"Silverlight requires Windows or Mac OS X"

Sorry! Running linux here.
dd_wingrider
23-08-2007, 10:47 AM
thanks for the info!!!
rakeshishere
24-08-2007, 12:15 PM
I am astonished everytime with the weird "product names" M$ gets :)
ax3
24-08-2007, 01:15 PM
awesome ..........
praka123
24-08-2007, 01:18 PM
"Silverlight requires Windows or Mac OS X"

Sorry! Running linux here. ===same here=== :eek::eek:
(although heard `de icaza is porting it to Linux while M$ supports this!)
mustang
24-08-2007, 07:58 PM
Really very amazing news,It has fantastic features,By using this users gets help in different ways,they can doing so many researches in many fields & it also has nice feature of silver light,
It shows the Quality of Microsoft,that how it gaves the different & advanced technology to the users regarding to their needs,against in this very competitive
time.
subratabera
24-08-2007, 09:13 PM
"Silverlight requires Windows or Mac OS X"

Sorry! Running linux here. I think you can run silverlight on Linux as well...

http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight

http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9731410-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Jun-21.html

Here are some screenshots... (http://www.mono-project.com/MoonlightShots)
rakeshishere
25-08-2007, 11:34 PM
@subratabera
Is that a clone of silverlight for linux?
subratabera
26-08-2007, 10:12 AM
Its just a Mono-based implementation of Silverlight on Linux platform....