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Have you ever wanted to search and IM with your friends at the same time ? Or even better, drag and drop news results and share them with your buddies while chatting it up? If you have, great news : this functionality is now available through Messenger !

Joseph Yao, a program manager working on the Search Activity, guest posts to explain it all:

What do you share with your friend when you're chatting?

Your well-wishing for coming holiday?

Your album of recent travel in China?

Have you ever tried to share a link with them?

"Yes, of course. I'm a shopping expert. My friends often ask me where they can buy the most popular fashionable dress. I will search on the web, find it and send the web page link to them."

Aha, then I guess you must have to copy/paste the link and close some browser window after you share it with your friend. Don't you feel anything inconvenience doing so?

Fortunately, I never need to do so when I want to share such kind of things with my friend. My secret is......

Search in Messenger!

How to use it:

Open a conversation window
Hit "Activities"
Select the top one: Search
Input some keyword, and then Go!

Tips:

It's a single user activity. Your friend won't need to accept anything when you want to search.

Requirements:

Now available on Windows Live Messenger Beta and MSN Messenger.
Currently only available in the US, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Japan.

Coming soon:

Spell check
Image Search
More and more available countries

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