Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft

With Microsoft's recent rollout of their desktop local search tool, the guntlets are off in the Microsoft vs. Google Search War. Technology Review provides an excellent overview and discussion of key strategic issues here. Give it a read.

Included is this intriguing summary (left) of the quantities of indexed and unindexed content. Google and other search tools have come a long way. Clearly there's still a long way to go.