microsoft creats an addon for firefox :o

[shan]

A Microsoft add-on for Firefox lets the browser show suggested completions of a search when someone starts typing it into the search box.
(Credit: Microsoft)

If you had any doubts Microsoft didn't appreciate the advantages of Firefox's ability to accommodate add-ons, you can dispel them now. The company just released one that makes Microsoft's search service work better with the open-source Web browser.
"We're happy to report that we've officially integrated Live Search into Firefox by popular demand," said Live Search Program Manager Beatrice Oltean and Senior Product Manager Debapriya Ray in a blog post Thursday.
Like Yahoo's Inquisitor, the Microsoft search add-on connects to Microsoft's search site to suggest completions of searches as people start typing them into the browser's search box.
Microsoft is vying with Yahoo and Google to claim a greater share of the search market. Those rivals are more successful at the search advertising business, which places text ads next to search results.
According to Alessandro Catorcini, lead program manager for Live Search API (application programming interface), the add-on uses Microsoft's Live Search API 2.0. That's part of a project called Silk Road.



(credit: News.com)

[bahirzaheri8]

This is kind of showing that Microsoft is acknowledging that FF is gaining way

[hellnoire]

Well, they have to, with around a fifth of all that access the internet use FF. But this is their second add on, I believe. The first was for WMP to access the net though FF. I believe at least, either that, or hobbyists wrote it.

[bahirzaheri8]

Well, they have to, with around a fifth of all that access the internet use FF. But this is their second add on, I believe. The first was for WMP to access the net though FF. I believe at least, either that, or hobbyists wrote it.

I haven't heard about that one....

[hellnoire]

Yeah, I only found out about it because of SpiralFrog which I looked at. I'm thinking I might join, just for the music, but I don't know.