Microsoft denies "innovation" in search

THE VOLE has denied a rumour that it has hired a crack team of hot young twenty-somethings to set about working on a next-gen search Google killer.

The rumour was started by Silicon Valley blog Tech Crunch, which dubbed the new team "rock stars". They heard that Sanaz Ahari, one of the youngest developers on the Live.com product and one of Microsoft's littlest product leads, had been shipped down to the Valley to work on the project.

But speaking at the Search Marketing Expo in Seattle yesterday, Satya Nadella, who is the top vole in charge of Search and Ads, jokingly denied any such claims, saying instead that the company would certainly experiment in the future, though that wouldn't involve building a new search engine.

Quite how you "innovate in search" without building a new engine, however, we're not sure. It's possible that Microsoft isn't either. µ