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Live Search is a funny sort of bird.

Ok, technically, it's not a bird at all - it's a web site (or "web app", which is the trendy name for anything on The Internet that isn't a MySpace page...). But of course, I'm using "bird" here as slang for an unusual person.

...Which doesn't really work either, since, as I already mentioned, Live Search is a web site (or web app) and not at all a person (which for the sake of this discussion I'll define as, "something you could converse with over lunch without having to carry both sides of the conversation and eat both lunches").

In case this has become confusing, allow me to try again: Live Search is a funny sort of web site. And not just because it seems to exist for the sole purpose of proving that Microsoft is every bit as hip as Google, like some sort of corporate 40-year-old in baggy shorts. Nor am I referring to the strange promotional tactics involving paying companies to use Live Search, though I could extend the metaphor to involve said 40yr-old buying beer for the kids.

No, I find it funny today for a much more subtle reason:

Now, how many pages of results are there... One, or thirteen?

You can probably guess that the thirteen refers to the total number of results, but if you're guessing that they're all on Page 1, well, by the time you get to the end of the page you'll know you're wrong:

Go figure, eh?

Funny 'ol Web App...