Microsoft's Live Search homepage gets a facelift

Microsoft is giving a new look to its Live Search homepage Live.com. The new design on the homepage will have background images that will keep changing frequently. These images will have something called "hotspots". These hotspots are interactive areas that highlight parts of the image and help in exploring search results related to the highlighted part of the image.


When a user arrives on the homepage, the hotspots will twinke and then fade into the image. These will appear again when a mouse is placed on them, showing up details about the image and a link to a related search result.

As of now, the homepage will be released in the US only. Users in other countries will probably have to wait for a while before they get to try the new homepage of live search.