New Search Engine
 

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/TechNews...478295-ap.html

SEATTLE - In its latest bid to catch up with rivals Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news), Microsoft Corp. is launching a revamped Internet search engine it says will help computer users find information faster, view it more easily and organize it better.

Debuting in test form Wednesday, Windows Live Search is Microsoft's latest move in a major strategy shift that has the world's largest software company focusing more heavily on Internet-based software and services.




I've had an opportunity to try some of the Live! stuff, and I have to say the new Live messenger is great... I hated not being able to send offline messages in the older versions like you could in icq and aim. But that's solved, as well as much improved file sharing.

We'll see how the search engine side does

This is something to keep an eye on I'm sure.
Microsoft could force their way into the SE world.