Microsoft Live Mobile Adds Product Search
May 6th, 2008 MobileFreak
Since we last took a look at Microsoft’s Live Search for Mobile back in February, the team in Redmond has significantly enhanced it’s mobile search offering.
Through the new Products feature (in beta), Live Mobile users can now access detailed product information for a number of categories. For example, a search of the term “laptops” returned a summary view of four of the more popular laptops, including a product image, make and model, price range, and the number of stars based on user ratings.
The Live Mobile service also includes the other existing sections of results, which are included in the list below:
- Products (beta)
- Web
- Images
- News
- Spaces
- Local
- Map
In order for the Local and Map to be enabled, the user must set their location either by entering their zip code or portion of their address themselves, or by utilizing the new “Find My Location” feature. This recently-added feature gets the location of the user through triangulation of nearby cell phone towers.
Try it out the next time you are making a large purchase and see if your price is competitive.
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Find my location works great but only in the UK
I wish they extended it to other places - it’s really great and gives a good fight to the Google Maps client which you have to download
james