I agree. Microsoft seems fairly confident they can build a competitive search engine. Besides, I would imagine most of the worthwhile talent at Yahoo has jumped ship already. The problem is no one will go out of their way to try Live Search. Instead of trying to pull people in it looks like they want to move in front of the users.
Live Search isn't actually bad, and they have some cool toys on top of it like Miss Dewey. In my copy of Firefox, Google is the first search choice, then Yahoo, then Amazon, Live is 8th. Who would go for something that's 8th?! Amazon isn't even a search engine!
