Not one to quietly simmer down, Google has now appealed to Federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to participate as Amicus Curiae meaning friend of the court in Microsoft's anti-trust issue, reports Seattle pi. The appeal is 5 page long and titled “Reply Brief for Google Inc in support of motion for leave to participate as Amicus Curiae”.

Calling their own participation "timely and useful" Google claims that their formal participation in this case as amnicus "could serve a useful purpose."

Based on a research conducted by Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions Online Travel Survey, Indians browse and surf the net for leisure and travel related information reports Television Point.

Between November 2006 and April 2007, 7,000 MSN and Windows Live users in 10 Asia-Pacific nations, including India were surveyed. Also, seven out of 10 Asians found it helpful to make online travel bookings.

Other Interesting points include:

Webmasters are a confused lot at Webmaster World on whether Live.com / MSN Search is undergoing update currently.

The sudden rise and drops that are being described as “wild swings”. Whle some achieved high rankings, the rest's experience went like this:

1. “I thought they had resolved the blogspot problem, but today I see several junk pages ranking well, including the #1 spot for the phrase I am monitoring.”

Microsoft launches their new-look for MSN mobile. As with every other MSN product, it has clean lines with a fresh feel and modern feel.

Latest features in the new MSN Mobile portal include:

1. Sports - Get game scores, schedules, stats, and more
2. Weather - Look up the week's forecast
3. Entertainment - Find movie reviews, show times, and more
4. Money - Get instant stock quotes and money tips

According to the Live Search blog, Live Search Books now boasts of “ availability of in-copyright book content” among other new additions.

Live Search Books, is the first new important feature.
• “The integration of this valuable content will help us improve our ability to answer your questions and point you toward useful sources for

Liveside reports Microsoft has an improved version of Live Search called Imagine Live Search.

Unlike the original version, with Imagine Live Search, search results are different too. Imagine Live Search has more information including images (including information about the image), a section called try other searches and related searches to name a few.

Other Interent Search providers already have similar versions like Yahoo Alpha, Ask's Ask X and Google SearchMash.

New Reports inform Microsoft now owns 4% of job portal, CareerBuilder's equity stakes. With this development, the hold of the job portal's owners, Tribune Co., Gannett Co. Inc., McClatchy Co. on CareerBuilder decreases. Mclatchy already owns 31 newspapers and.

Microsoft Founder and Head Honcho, Bill Gates announced his plan to focus his remaining months of active duty on search. At the company's annual Strategic Account Summit, Gates waxed eloquent on the transformation of destination-based search to an online experience.

The Silicon Valley has always been a land of quick rise or fall and awe run by sharp thinking multi-billionaires-both young and old. This everyone gets. What befuddles common people is trying to understand their operations and functions. An obvious example of which was a report in the WSJ about Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc.

The Wall Street Journal after writing five articles on it, finally closed the topic by saying Microsoft is not finally buying Yahoo! The cited reason for the break off of talks is Yahoo!'s disinterest.

The difference since the initial talks is the current urgency in the tone of Microsoft. They are offering a whopping $50 billion against Yahoo! market valuation of $38bn. Yahoo! who still backed out. This comes at a bad time, just a month after Microsoft lost to Google in a war to purchase DoubleClick. Microsoft was so intent on the take over that famed bankers Goldman Sachs have been advising them.