So waaay back in August (which isn't actually all that long ago - but it feels like an age!) I left this comment on Rand's post asking for feedback to take to the MSN/Live team about ways they could improve their service.
Well it looks like link data is finally available through Live if you simply add a '+' before the search (example) - hat tip to Joost for picking this up!
##Why is this better than Yahoo?
Firstly you don't have to log in - Yahoo plays up if you don't log in which is a real pain when working on a computer which isn't your own.
Secondly it indents results from the same domain - no more having to scroll through masses and masses of links when you get a sitewide link.
Thirdly - it appears to not count nofollowed links.
Fourthly, it's quicker and cleaner than Yahoo.
As I mentioned - I currently use Yahoo a fair amount but I'd love an excuse to ditch them. Now I have one and Yahoo is gone. I predict I most likely won't visit Yahoo again this year.
In the UK Live/MSN and Yahoo send about the same amount of traffic (in my experience, maybe Live sends a little more) but I can't help but get the feeling that Yahoo is sending less and less and Live is sending more and more. With all the things Live has in the pipeline I think by this time next year we'll be talking Google and Live more or less exclusively and Yahoo will be a distant memory - like Ask, bless them.