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Microsoft has launched an experimental search site Tafiti.com that uses Silverlight 1.0 to display Windows Live search results. The search experience is unlike most of other interfaces that are currently found on the Web, and the graphics on the home page have a similar look and feel to the GUI of Windows Vista.

The result page also includes a box for entering a search topic on the left hand side of the screen, which is created to look like the top of a piece of looseleaf paper, with a blank white section in the center with the heading “Web” where search results appear.

On the right is a notepad-like application that Microsoft calls a “shelf,” with thumbnail-sized screenshots of what look like Web pages.

The aim of Tafiti just seems to showcase the power of Microsoft Silverlight, and there is no improvement in the awkward search results returned by Windows Live Search

Search engines help people find web pages on a given subject. Millions and millions of searches are conducted each and every day on search engines by people all around the world.

What do people search? What are they looking for?

Following are some of the data provided by major search engines that’ll help us understand about what people actually search
Google Zeitgeist - Collection of lists of the most frequent search queries. There are weekly, monthly and yearly lists, as well as topic and country specific lists.

Yahoo Buzz Log - Buzz Log a good way to keep up with what’s going on, both online and in the real world. It is a service developed by Yahoo! to draw conclusions based on data taken from the Yahoo Search. Each week the Buzz Log is updated with the latest search data and correlations to various real world occurrences.

AOL Hot Searches - Latest hot search topics and current, most searched news on AOL Search. Find top current queries, or see those in the last hour, last day and within particular categories.

Ask IQ - See the most popular search terms each week based on millions of Ask.com searches.

Dogpile SearchSpy - Real-time data on terms searched on dogpile.com

Lycos Top50 - Weekly data of Top 50 searches on Lycos search network.