(Windows) Live Search Upgrade Sucks! Don't Download it!!

wavezero · #1 (**permalink**) 01-18-2009, 05:17 PM

I use Live Search all the time and love it. I took the upgrade yesterday and it was terrible.

My one complaint about the stock version was that it didn't save your history like in the address bar of a web browser. The upgraded one does. However it is horrendous.

After every letter you input it updates the possible dropdown list- then you have to click in the search field again to continue. After every letter you have to wait and then click in the field again, it's ridiculous. Then when it finally pulled the thing I was looking for, it opened opera and showed me the live search website.

DON'T TAKE THE UPGRADE, IT IS EVIL!!

If you have already taken the install and hate it as much as I do. Then you can reinstall the stock version with File Explorer from here: My Device\Internal Storage\LiveSearchWM6

**Dr.8820** · #2 (**permalink**) 01-18-2009, 05:23 PM

i will not download this then!

SprintTouch08 · #3 (**permalink**) 01-18-2009, 05:25 PM

agree i think the new version isnt very good. it seems much slower loading maps too. the birdseye view is much less useful than Google's street view, more of a 3d satellite view which looks cool but thats about it in terms of functionality. The whole point of a street view is to see the buildings and location in 3d from your viewpoint to match it to what you physically see which birdseye cant do like street view.

personally ill take google maps any day over livesearch anyways in general, never been a big livesearch fan. i google is much faster to load and only lack the turn by turn direction portion (but if you have a good gps program thats not an issue). i dont think the weather or that other junk in the menu is worth very much to the average user. Google is still the best map program IMO.

avgas · #4 (**permalink**) 01-18-2009, 05:38 PM

very very slow.. Fortunately, It didn't uninstall the original version I had, I actually have both installed and can easily removed the newer version

wavezero · #5 (**permalink**) 01-18-2009, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by SprintTouch08

personally ill take google maps any day over livesearch anyways in general, never been a big livesearch fan. i google is much faster to load and only lack the turn by turn direction portion (but if you have a good gps program thats not an issue). i dont think the weather or that other junk in the menu is worth very much to the average user. Google is still the best map program IMO.

I'll have to check out google maps. I wasn't very impressed with it back in the Mogul days, but haven't given it a look in a while... Live search has done everything I needed.

**aceracer24** · #6 (**permalink**) 01-18-2009, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by wavezero

After every letter you input it updates the possible dropdown list- then you have to click in the search field again to continue. After every letter you have to wait and then click in the field again, it's ridiculous. Then when it finally pulled the thing I was looking for, it opened opera and showed me the live search website.

Umm, it's called Autosuggest and it's an option that can be turned off...

For the record, I think the upgrade is fine, works great on my phone and doesn't seem to be any faster or slower then the previous.

neodorian · #7 (**permalink**) 01-18-2009, 07:52 PM

I used it today for the first time in a while and took the upgrade. I had to tell it what port my GPS was on but didn't notice much else bad about it.

wavezero · #8 (**permalink**) 01-18-2009, 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by aceracer24

Umm, it's called Autosuggest and it's an option that can be turned off...

For the record, I think the upgrade is fine, works great on my phone and doesn't seem to be any faster or slower then the previous.

With autosuggest on, did you have to click on the field after each input?

**aceracer24** · #9 (**permalink**) 01-18-2009, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by wavezero

With autosuggest on, did you have to click on the field after each input?

I have not turned autosuggest off and I have not had to click on any field after any input. I have no idea what you are talking about to be honest. I had the drop down while I was looking something up but it in no way caused me any problems and it certainly didn't slow anything down for me either. Yes I did see that if you clicked on a suggestion it would open opera which I found useless but that's about it. You are not required to click on any of the suggestions btw. You can click on the search button instead to search as always.

TreyBeno · #10 (**permalink**) 01-18-2009, 09:59 PM

Same here. Upgraded and havent seen any real difference