live.com - Long Way to Go!

Did anybody try live.com lately? It looks nice but they have a long way to go.

Microsoft is creating this to compete with yahoo and google better than what it did with MSN, but there are some fundamental issues with it and they better fix them if they really want to be in the race.

Try searching for "eBay in San Jose, CA" in all three local searches(local.live.com, local.yahoo.com and local.google.com). Out of these 3 - yahoo and google give you exact details i.e., the first result is eBay headquarters in San Jose.

But look at local.live.com, it gives me following 3 results.

1. V A Shinebay Enterprises Incorporated.
2. Travinfo Transit and Travel Informati On for The Bay Area.
3. Rotacare Bay Area Information.

Now, you (perhaps somebody from Microsoft?) tell me how these are anyway related to keyword "eBay"? Certainly not the keyword itself (except partial match for #1), and no way related to business. I even remember seeing "eBay carwash" in the past for the same search! What a joke.

I have tried using live.com but these kinda issues are forcing me to leave it! Sorry Microsoft.

On the other hand, i found ask.com a lot better than all of these. I am using ask.com more and more these days, it is better and going to get a lot better soon i bet. All big guns, you better watch out...