Desktop Search LookOut Purchased by Microsoft

Jul 16, 2004 - 8:53 am 1 by
Filed Under Bing Search

Lookout Software was purchased by Microsoft. This is what they do... "Built on top of a powerful search engine, Lookout is the only personal search engine that can search all of your email from directly within Outlook - in seconds..."

So Ask Jeeves purchased desktop search company Tukaroo, we know Google is working on something. So here we go.

Forum coverage at Search Engine Watch and WebmasterWorld.

 

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