[link|http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12746|Microsoft plays with Google News look-alike].

According to the news wire, MSN is testing a so-called "newsbot" which aggregates stories on the world wide web, just like Google does.

Microsoft is clearly frightened of the power that Google represents. It's a familiar picture. Microsoft's strength is not inventing new things \ufffd it's in successfully taking up other people's ideas and marketing the heck out of them through fair means and, as the antitrust suit proved, sometimes foul.

Same song, different verse.