Are there times when you just want to find an answer to a simple fact? You could go look it up (apparently some people do still use books!) or even phone a friend, but Live Search offers some really cool Instant Answers to many common (and not so common) questions.

• Lost and confused? Just ask “where am I?”
• Watching your weight and need to know how many “Calories in a moose” or less obscure “Calories in a Turkey” (it’s almost Thanksgiving!)
• Want to solve an equation …. this will give you an answer for X where “X^2+2*X+0.5=0”
• “height K2”, “height Mt. St. Helens”
• Have you ever wondered the “weight of an elephant”… well the answer is there at your fingertips.
• Ever wondered “what size is the pentagon?” Now you know.
• You can track any UPS, FedEx etc. package just by entering the tracking number
• Want to get away from the weather – check out a “flight from Seattle to Miami” .
• Curious about some world facts? Just ask for the “Population Arizona”, “life expectancy China”, “literacy rate South Korea”, or even “population per physician USA”
• “define loquacious”
• “traffic”
• “weather”
• Did you ever wonder who the “Prime Minister of Canada” or the “Queen of England” was?
• It even has “the answer to Life the Universe and Everything”

As you can see, there are many sorts of questions that Instant Answers can help you with. They use the power of the Live search engine to make sense of the information available (and you even get to say if it’s useful or not to help improve the quality of the results).

Take a tour of Live Search to see what other cool things it can do that you never knew about :)

Meantime don’t forget the other great Live Search services like Cashback and SearchAndGive as well as Live Search for Mobile…