Tuesday, December 2, 2008

The Online Search Party: A Way to Share the Load

NYT 11/22/08 Anne Eisenberg

“Now tools are being developed by Microsoft and other companies that let people at different computers search as a team, dividing responsibilities and pooling results and recommendations in a shared Web space on the browser display as they plan a family vacation, for instance, or research a medical problem.”

“Meredith Ringel Morris, a computer scientist at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Wash., has created one of these collaborative tools, SearchTogether, now available in a test version as a free download at http://research.microsoft.com/searchtogether . The program is designed to work within the Internet Explorer 7 browser.”

Go to http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/business/23novelties.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

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