Weird world

So while Google wastes our time with google mars, Microsoft - of all - surprises us with some new (AJAX?) features on search interfaces with live.com:

• a slider to dynamically de-/increase the level of details
• a ajax(?) scrollbar... Not sure if this really helps, but you get less dependent on the browser and how it reacts to large lists/documents.

Probably not a major breakthrough; the news is ... it is from Microsoft.