The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Microsoft wants to make searches a snap

The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Microsoft wants to make searches a snap: "One product, Windows Live Search, will let workers use a single action to find information in their e-mail, in documents stored on their computers, in databases maintained by their companies -- including those provided by companies such as SAP and Siebel -- and the Internet.
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Another product, Knowledge Network, automatically creates profiles of workers, listing their expertise related to the company's business and customers."

I'm having serious déjà vu this week; there was a big IBM/Microsoft/other push (no pun intended) in these domains ~a decade ago...