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Microsoft acquiring Lookout's search tool
Microsoft, the world's biggest software company, has thousands of programmers and billions of dollars to spend on developing search technology to compete with the likes of Google and Yahoo.
But today, Microsoft is buying a key piece of search technology created by one guy in a Palo Alto guest house in his spare time, with help from his friend and a bunch of volunteers across the Web.
Microsoft is acquiring Lookout, a two-man Silicon Valley company that offers a free, downloadable search engine for Microsoft's own Outlook e-mail software.
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