Microsoft unveils new search technologies

[mandy]

Microsoft is ratcheting up its competition with Google in the search arena. The company displayed several new search technologies that could form the cornerstone of a new approach to data aggregation at its annual TechFest event. One of them, a program called "Mix," would allow users to combine results from searches of multiple sources...

Mix technology is designed to pull data from numerous sources -- including Web sites, the computer's hard drive and databases -- and integrate all of the results into one document. The service will allow Web surfers to organize search results and easily share them.

"Think of Mix as a kind of high-tech, living scrapbook," Rick Rashid, Microsoft Research senior vice president, said. "You can create a page that has digital pictures of your family, e-mails you exchange with family members and links to places you love to visit together."...

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