Searching Together

It happens - the phenomenon of similar ideas all hatching at the same time. The latest seems to be synchronous web experiences. I've heard about three or four of them in the past few weeks, the latest being Microsoft's Search Together. From a page explaining the research project:

Search, of course, has become ubiquitous for enabling users to find Web content, but existing search engines have… » Full Story on John Battelle's Searchblog