Live Search Images

In my last post I blogged about Tafiti, a Silverlight interface to Live Search. Meanwhile, "traditional" Live Search has a particularly nice UI IMHO. For an example, follow this link: Leonardo DaVinci. The experience is really nice, you can zoom-in/out on the thumbnails, drag images of interest to the scratchpad and you also get a list of related people on the RHS.

 

 

Best thing though is that when you click on any particular image, rather than being taken to its associated page i.e. away from your search results, what happens is that the format of the Live Search page changes to that shown below - you get vertical a ribbon-effect down the LHS with all of the images from the original search, while in the centre pane you see the associated page, which allows you to quickly navigate your way through your search results, all the while being able to drag thumbnails to the scratchpad (which will be available to you when you come back). Nice! 

 

 

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Cross posted from ronan's blog