TechFest - Merrie Morris - Collaborative Search, Co-Search, and Search Bar

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Mar 4th @ 9:23 AM

In this video, you'll see demos of some unique ways to alter the search experience including

- Collaborative Search - searching and annotating with multiple people
- Co-Search - multiple people using the same computer with multiple mice and mobile phones for input devices
- Search Bar - Enables a single person to keep track of their search results

Tags: MS Research, MultiPoint, Search, TechFest

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CplCarrot

Ok who do I need to bribe/kill to get access to the search together app?
Is there any chance of an email registration to let us know when it is released as this page does not have it?
I am not so sure about the multi user search on one computer though and the search bar could be useful but I reserve judgement on it.
The only thing that is keeping me from switching to Live search is the lack of a "Suggest" feature like Google has http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en
This is such a killer feature for me that there needs to be a really good feature to drive it off. I wonder if the Search together is restricted to Live - I suppose it must be.

Dan

CplCarrot wrote:

Ok who do I need to bribe/kill to get access to the search together app?
Is there any chance of an email registration to let us know when it is released as this page does not have it?
I am not so sure about the multi user search on one computer though and the search bar could be useful but I reserve judgement on it.
The only thing that is keeping me from switching to Live search is the lack of a "Suggest" feature like Google has http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en
This is such a killer feature for me that there needs to be a really good feature to drive it off. I wonder if the Search together is restricted to Live - I suppose it must be.

Good question, I emailed Merrie and here's the response:

SearchTogether will be available as a free download sometime soon – the current plan is by the end of March, although it could be as late as April.

SearchTogether runs in the IE7 browser, but users can choose whether to select Live, Yahoo!, or Google as their default search engine.