New Microsoft Tool: Tafiti

Microsoft just launched a new tool called Tafiti. Tafiti is a new kind of search engine tool that uses Silverlight, Microsoft’s Flash. Tafiti looks really nice on the outside, but it’s basically just the same search engine allowing you to search the web, photos, news and more.

If you like looks over simplicity, you’ll like Tafiti. Tafiti is slightly slower than just using Live Search. One feature Tafiti provides is saving results. I really need to start saving my results, because I find that I am always looking for something again and again.

You are not required to use Internet Explorer, because it works with other browsers, including Firefox as long as you install Silverlight. I found a problem with that though. Silverlight told me there was an update when I went to Tafiti and tried it out, but after I went to sign in, it won’t let me use Tafiti now. It says I need to install Silverlight, which is already installed, even after restarting the browser. But, it works fine when opening IE.