With the recent update of the Product Search experience (http://search.live.com/products/), users can both research and find deals on products within Live Search. We’ve incorporated feedback from our users during the beta cycle and revamped the user experience, so now users can search and refine products by user opinions, brand, category, and price ranges. In addition, users can sort results by best user, expert rating, and price. Try it out, and send us your feedback!

Here are highlights of our product search experience:

• One stop to research product details and find good prices  You see an image and description for each product, reviews from other users, prices to help you find good deals, and spec sheets for many products.
• Feature-based refinements  See which products are reviewed positively or negatively for the features that interest you. View product features such as screen size, battery life, ease of use, and portability.
• Sorting  Sort product results by user ratings, expert ratings, and price.
• Filtering  Filter product results by specific brands, categories, and price ranges.
• Richer product details  Read expert reviews and a spec sheet describing the product.

In the example below, you can view both positive and negative feedback on the Garmin Nuvi 360 GPS receiver. You can click Ease of Use above the green bar to read actual user comments specifically about Ease of Use. This makes it really easy to parse long user reviews to find exactly what you’re looking for. Learn more about summarizing user reviews in our previous post here.

Instant answers  In addition to the Product Search update, we’ve improved Product instant answers in web search for broader product queries like GPS, digital cameras, plasma tv, where your intent is research. The instant answer provides guides (we now have a larger selection) and user and expert reviews.

Try different product searches in web search and give us your feedback by clicking Is this Useful?

Note  This is a U.S. release only. We haven’t yet released these features internationally.

More to come  We’re excited to bring you these new Product search features, and we have a lot more planned in the coming months. In the meantime, try out a few searches like gps systems, mp3 players, and cell phones, and let us know what you think by using the Feedback link!

The Live Product Search team