Whoa, Microsoft announced two new innovative services for their famous live.com website (you know, live.com is like, a top brand already, you know).

They'll add a product search engine [google.com] and a scientific search engine [google.com].

Not that any of these hadn't been done [product search engine list] numerous [citeseer] times [DBLP] before.

And apparently it takes them until september to actually launch the first of these (no ETA given for renaming shopping.msn.com to live.com and ajaxifying it). That's so "me too", what they are doing.

I would laugh if Google would launch an Ajax-version of their services just before Microsoft is done with theirs. I mean, Google has Ajax experts. Not that Ajax would improve the user experience much for search pages.

I wonder if Microsoft could hold their shipping date of Vista if they wouldn't try to copy Google at the same time. And making game consoles. And mice.