Looks like the Windows Live Product Search Beta has launched, the Windows Live Product Search allows users to search through products offered by 10,000 resellers but unfortunately it’s only available for the United States market at the moment as it’s still in beta so if you are not from the United States and you would still like to test it out make sure you set your live.com homepage settings to English (United States), want to know more about it and how to access the Windows Live Product Search Beta then read below for more information directly from the Windows Live Product Team Blog:

We wanted to create a Windows Live service, which enables users to search for products online from a wide variety of online sellers. We listened to the feedback from search users who were not completely satisified with the Windows Live web search experience when it came to answering commercial queries.

At beta, the index will contain products from over 100,000 sellers and this number will continue to grow over time. The project started with the premise of enabling small businesses to be well represented in the index and to enable users to find hard-to-find and unique items. Working with Microsoft Research enabled us to productize the core technology which can algorithmically classify and extract product information from numerous online web sites. It is interesting to note that in addition to indexing products such as toaster ovens and chai tea, the system also indexes commercial offers for vacation rentals to automobiles.

The product results shown in the left pane are ordered by the relevance of the results to the search query. Microsoft does not charge for any traffic generated from click-through on those results to the seller. Only the ads pane on the right-hand side of the window is monetized.

The user interface stays true to the simplicity of the search paradigm and inherits many features common to the Windows Live search family such as smart scroll, image hovering, and level of detail slider. In addition, users are able to refine their searches by related term, brand, seller and price.

The initial beta offering is missing several features such as: rating and reviews, item clustering and bigger selection. We continue to work on improving the quality of the site and and are extremely interested in your feedback:

http://feedback.live.com/eform.aspx?productkey=wlsearchproduct&P1

Hope you enjoy shopping using our beta service!

Imran Aziz, Lead Program Manager

On behalf of the Windows Live Product Search team.

Via: Windows Live Product Search team blog