The slice and dice interface is something MS has been trying to perfect for a while. Look for it to improve and get smarter in the next few iterations.
Google did have something similar, I think it was called Google Tables, basically a search engine that could automatically build a table of data for you. i.e. you search for "US City Populations" and it would start peicing together a list of US cities with the names in one column, and population in another. Data would be gathered from pages in Googles cache, even if i had to span many pages/sites. The output was ugly though.
Ideally, you'd want Googles superior search hueristics, with Microsoft's superior slice and dice GUI, then you would have something really handy.
Google did have something similar, I think it was called Google Tables, basically a search engine that could automatically build a table of data for you. i.e. you search for "US City Populations" and it would start peicing together a list of US cities with the names in one column, and population in another. Data would be gathered from pages in Googles cache, even if i had to span many pages/sites. The output was ugly though.
Ideally, you'd want Googles superior search hueristics, with Microsoft's superior slice and dice GUI, then you would have something really handy.
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