Microsoft will soon integrate Windows Live Search into Windows Live Messenger.

From the site:

Have you ever been chatting with a friend, decided to see a movie together, but had to open up a new browser window to see what time the movie was? Now, life is easy. You can preview a result within Messenger and send the result link to your friend by clicking one button.

For image search result, you can drag/drop it to set it as your conversation window background or your Display picture, or even send this image to your friend.

We use Atlas framework (Microsoft AJAX technology) to build up this feature, which makes our UI more smooth and comfortable. Since we use asynchronous call to get the search results from backend web service, we can render our page layout dynamically. That?s why user won?t feel any page refresh while loading the results. Best of all, the user can preview the first result while other results are still loading their content.

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