Microsoft SearchTogether

[Osiris]

I recently stumbled upon a very beta Microsoft product called SearchTogether. It will be a collaboration platform in the form of an IE plugin that lets people work together when searching the web.
At first glance from the screenshots, it seems to me that it will be a chat-twitter mix, integrated with IE and Live messenger. I have doubts about the usability of this, since you can collaborate just as well using online messengers. You won’t get web search history, but would that really be necessary? I don’t know, it might turn out awesome, who knows.
The beta download will be available in Spring 2008, so possibly sometime soon, along with a probable revamp of the site a bit since it looks a bit shabby right now, I’m eagerly awaiting Microsoft’s next move against Google, sitting back, watching the fight and getting cool beta stuff along the way is so great!

Microsoft SearchTogether