In addition to preparing for the launch of Bing , Microsoft’s much-hyped semantic search product slated to replace Live Search, the company has also announced a standalone product optimized for real time web search. This offering includes Internet Explorer 8 bundled with search and webslices from OneRiot, a real-time social search engine we’ve written about in the past. Microsoft is also offering a real time add-ons package that includes the same OneRiot products. According to the IE Addons Gallery page , “This special version of Internet Explorer 8 comes loaded with fresh OneRiot goodies, putting the real-time web directly into your browser.” Sponsor Said OneRiot’s Tobias Peggs in an email tonight, “This new bundled browser that Microsoft is pushing is a big new step for us… It’s a vote of confidence in the way we index the web, the results we return, and our ability to scale- all good indicators.” For users who have already installed IE8, Microsoft also offers three real-time add-ons packages, which adds the same OneRiot components contained in the fully optimized browser.

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