ClickZ: Orchestrating New Search With MSN

As several search companies attempt to expand their presence on the computer desktop, giving away toolbars and planning even more ambitious bridgeheads onto the operating system, Microsoft is fighting from the other direction, incorporating web search results into system-level searches. MSN is showing early versions of a technology that would search hard drives, personal documents, as well as the web, to put together a public and private montage of relevant works.