The Sunday NYTimes ran a PR fed story on SearchTogether a project from Microsoft Research

SearchTogether  is a beta IE7 plug-in that allows groups of people to collaborate on Web searches..

Web search is usually considered a solitary activity, but many tasks can benefit from joint searching. -Dr Meredith Ringel Morris

SearchTogether can benefit a group of people interested in investigating a topic together, such as students working on a report, colleagues working on a project, or just friends planning social activities. SearchTogether supports both synchronous and asynchronous collaboration styles.

I've been blogging about software development on the Microsoft stack for about five years and Google is my Uncle while Windows Live Search has yet to discovered me.