Microsoft Notebook: MSN search engine has foot in door

Microsoft Notebook: MSN search engine has foot in door: "A seemingly innocuous box on the screen inside the latest MSN instant-messaging program provides a clue to Microsoft's broader strategy in the search business.
Microsoft announced a preview version of its new MSN Desktop Search program this morning
The rectangular box, embedded in a preview version of the company's MSN Messenger 7.0, is a search field. Users will be able to launch Internet searches directly from that field, automatically opening a Web browser to display the relevant results on an Internet search site.
And as you've probably guessed, the search site it uses is not Google.
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MSN Messenger alone boasts 145 million users around the world. But the addition of the search box to the instant-messaging program looks to be only the start."