I guess it's been a couple of months ago, but I gave their search a look, especially the image search. It was okay, and pretty much uncluttered, but Google is still better.
I looked today, and I didn't even see an image search choice. Either I missed it or they dropped it.
I freely admit there's something about MS that un-nerves me, considering their shady business practices, and how they've gone the Big Brother route, (much less how things that have no business accessing the net raises firewall alerts on my machine. I run ME, and it's even worse with my friends new XP rig he got this weekend). I just don't feel comfortable with them anymore. Not that I'm safe with Yahoo mail or anyone's search, but still....