<< Having been outmaneuvered in the booming market for Internet ads pegged to search results, Microsoft is trying to change the rules, arguing that keyword queries are merely one way of finding information.

In a speech to CEOs last week at Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., campus, Bill Gates said the company will bring Windows and Office into play as it battles Google and others for contracts to install search systems at companies. "It's about not just finding the information, [but] are we using it, getting insights into it, sharing it with other people?" Microsoft's chairman said.

To that end, Microsoft disclosed plans for search software to shield workers from the information explosion caused in no small part by the popularity of its own products. The Windows Live Search client can give PC users a single view of Microsoft's four major search systems: Windows Desktop Search for a PC's hard disk, SharePoint Server for company networks, and MSN Search and Windows Live on the Web. A test version is due this summer. >>

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