Tafiti - Does anyone get it?

[LizardKing]

http://www.tafiti.com/
Its looks like MS are trying to re-invent wheel of searching.

 

[Arsey]

Nobody is going to install something just to use search when google is fine.

 

[nikebee]

What the heck is it?

 

[nikebee]

Thats... different... to say the least.

Can't see how thats going to beat google or any other textual based search engine.

I imagine if you use a larger than 19" display and have a big resolution then it would be quite nice to use. But realistically I think it's a bit harder to use than a regular text based search.

This could be possibly down to the fact I've only used Tafiti for 4 minutes now, but still...

 

[leaskovski]

Lots more bandwidth waste, thats what it looks like.

 

[leezer3]

The tree view has massive potential, just needs a lot of refinement (With a hammer quite possibly, but still )
I'd envisage it working like this:
Main Branch- Results rank, a bit like the page rank from Google. Those results deemed to be better quality/ similar are grouped onto a single main branch.
Sub-branch- These would split from the main branch, each representing the results within a particular domain.
Leaves- The page results from within a domain, rendered as mousover previews of the page in question.

At the moment, its very disjointed, and the description text just doesn't fit.

Finally seriously, who cares about a little more bandwidth usage in this day & age? Search engines need to evolve from static pages of text, whether you like it or not- While the technology powering our PCs has got better and better, the UI has stayed basically the same, with a few tweaks and effects. IMHO this will need to change radically at some stage in the near future

-Leezer-

 

[leaskovski]

The tree view has massive potential, just needs a lot of refinement (With a hammer quite possibly, but still )
I'd envisage it working like this:
Main Branch- Results rank, a bit like the page rank from Google. Those results deemed to be better quality/ similar are grouped onto a single main branch.
Sub-branch- These would split from the main branch, each representing the results within a particular domain.
Leaves- The page results from within a domain, rendered as mousover previews of the page in question.

At the moment, its very disjointed, and the description text just doesn't fit.

Finally seriously, who cares about a little more bandwidth usage in this day & age? Search engines need to evolve from static pages of text, whether you like it or not- While the technology powering our PCs has got better and better, the UI has stayed basically the same, with a few tweaks and effects. IMHO this will need to change radically at some stage in the near future

-Leezer-

well tell that to the ISP who like to cap how much data you shift?

 

[leezer3]

/Yawn.
Its attitudes like that which mean that nothing ever evolves. Just because what is currently available is 'adequate', it doesn't mean that something better cannot & shouldn't be developed and implemented.
A dialup connection & a 486 were perfectly adequate for downloading things, just went a heck of a lot slower, & couldn't play things at high resolutions (Uses more HDD space- What a waste!)- By your logic, that means we should still be on the 486

A proper implementation of this shouldn't use a significant amount of bandwidth more than anything else; I'm certain that the current version doesn't. All the fancy graphics etc. are rendered on your PC, not serverside; It's doing nothing more than retrieving the Windows Live search results & displaying them in a different rendering engine (Alright, not quite one of those, but you know what I mean).

-Leezer-

 

[leaskovski]

Mate, don't have a go! I wish the blooming ISP's didn't cap their services.

 

[The $6m Dan]

After clicking on a link, I have to tell my browser to allow the page to display because Tafiti wants to open it in a pop up.
So either I have to go through the hassle of telling Firefox that it's ok to allow that page to open (and do this each and every time I chose a search result) or disable the pop up blocker.

It's not looking too good so far, but if they sort that out I'd be more than happy to try it again

Did any body try MyLiveSearch???
I signed up for the beta and that also seems quite poor. It's supposed to be more up to date some how, but it can't find the headlines from the BBC news site, so that doesn't seem to work.
But at least people are trying to improve things.

 

[Mr Gimp]

"You have to have Microsoft Silverlight installed to view Tafiti"

No thanks, Google's fine as it is!

 

[Sic]

Unfortunately, there isn't a Silverlight plugin available for Ubuntu. Please change the way you work so you can try Microsoft's latest pathetic attempt to gain some market share in something they have no clue about.

no thanks.

besides, I saw it the other day and it's horribly designed. I hate flash websites, so chances are pretty low that I'll like Silverlight ones.

 

[leezer3]

Sorry about that, not meaning to have a go as such, more of a rant
Sometimes things just annoy me incredibly, especially as I know precisely how I want things to work, and nothing currently available comes close.

ISPs and capping is a problem, but again, it's our reluctance to change & acceptance of what is pushed upon us that means that nothing gets done- It would take too big & long term an investment to actually fix these problems, so all we get is short term bodges.

-Leezer-