Gates sees great things ahead for search technology

Seattle PI | at | by Mike

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told a gathering of more than 100 chief executives yesterday that advances in search technologies -- including the company's recent desktop search software -- will dramatically change the way people find, catalogue and track information.

"Search has given us a glimpse of what's possible," Gates said, speaking at the ninth annual Microsoft CEO Summit in Redmond. "But we need to take this a lot further -- we need to get very direct answers."