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Microsoft launches Tafiti - the new Search and Silverlight experiment

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Ankur Mittal
Ankur Mittal Original post #1
Aug 22, 2007 at 4:53 PM
*techtoday.110mb.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/tafiti-thumb.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.
*techtoday.110mb.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/tafiti1-thumb.jpg *techtoday.110mb.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/tafiti-2-thumb.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- *tafiti.com
deepak.krishnan
Aug 22, 2007 at 7:59 PM
it has great looks man... superb... nyway thanx for the link
Gigacore
Aug 22, 2007 at 8:31 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
Aug 22, 2007 at 8:58 PM
Superb
S
Aug 22, 2007 at 9:07 PM
Very nice looking...
koolbluez
Aug 22, 2007 at 9:37 PM
needs silverlight... i hate installin sw else for viewing sites!!! Flash & java were necessities :-x
S
Aug 22, 2007 at 10:16 PM
Good piece of information Thank u
Cool G5
Cool G5 #8
Aug 22, 2007 at 10:19 PM
Looks great.
Got to try it.
kalpik
kalpik #9
Aug 23, 2007 at 8:57 AM
"Silverlight requires Windows or Mac OS X"

Sorry! Running linux here.
dd_wingrider
Aug 23, 2007 at 10:47 AM
thanks for the info!!!
rakeshishere
Aug 24, 2007 at 12:15 PM
I am astonished everytime with the weird "product names" M$ gets :)
praka123
praka123 #12
Aug 24, 2007 at 1:18 PM
kalpik said:
"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!)
M
mustang #13
Aug 24, 2007 at 7:58 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
Aug 24, 2007 at 9:13 PM
kalpik said:
"Silverlight requires Windows or Mac OS X"

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

*www.mono-project.com/Moonlight

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

*tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Jun-21.html

Here are some screenshots...
rakeshishere
Aug 25, 2007 at 11:34 PM
@subratabera
Is that a clone of silverlight for linux?
subratabera
Aug 26, 2007 at 10:12 AM
Its just a Mono-based implementation of Silverlight on Linux platform....