Microsoft designs one-step search system
SeattlePI | at | by Mike
Microsoft will soon release technology that takes search functions far beyond the Internet, allowing users to pore through e-mail, personal computers and even big databases to find the information they want, a top executive said yesterday.
The system being developed by Microsoft's MSN online division "will, as far as the consumer is concerned, be an end-to-end system for searching across any data type," Yusuf Mehdi, head of Microsoft's MSN division, told analysts at a Goldman Sachs Internet conference in Las Vegas yesterday. The speech was broadcast over the Internet.