CEOs gather at Microsoft

Seattle PI | at | by Mike

Top corporate executives from around the world made their annual pilgrimage to Redmond today to hear Bill Gates hold forth on the latest technology trends -- including Microsoft's plans in the ultra-competitive search business.

In conjunction with Microsoft's CEO Summit, the company announced a unified program for searching across a corporate network, a PC hard drive and the Internet. It signals a renewed push in an area known as enterprise search, where Microsoft rival Google already has a foothold.