“Tafiti, which means “do research” in Swahili, is an experimental search front-end from Microsoft, designed to help people use the Web for research projects that span multiple search queries and sessions by helping visualize, store, and share research results. Tafiti uses both Microsoft Silverlight and Live Search to explore the intersection of richer experiences on the Web and the increasing specialization of search.”

My first words when I saw Tafiti was “WOW”. I was not really sure the purpose of this experiment but with playing with it a little more it makes a ton of sense. I can now find so many results then I can real time bookmark my findings via the Tafiti side bar, which is very cool. Its really pleasing on the eyes. But I ask the same question TechCruch asks, “Will many people use it?“. I’m not going to say yes or no, only time will tell. But I don’t think they are expecting a lot of people to switch over to it from the quick content oriented search sites. Its an experiment, and very cool one at that. If you want to learn a little more about Tafiti jump over to the Live Side blog. If you have some time to burn download the Silverlight plugin and have some fun with Tafiti!