Well, out of beta, anyway.

Live looks nice – all Web 2.0ish. Very quick. Even answers the “why is the sky blue question“. Hopefully they’ll dump the confusing MSN Search brand for good.

It has all the usual bells and whistles, including the scoping bar on the top of the page that keeps the information from a previous search. I really like the dynamic resizing on the image search. You can use the control bar to shift the display as images load. Makes the other search engines image search functions look positively clunky by comparison.