CNET News.com: Microsoft aims for search on its own terms

CNET News.com: “WinFS seeks to bridge the worlds of unstructured documents and data stored in relational databases with a common storage and look-up mechanism. If Microsoft is successful, the net result would likely be greater data interoperability and much improved viewing and searching. The tools could also permit Microsoft to undermine the utility of commercial search engines such as Google by making its own software the easiest place to initiate an investigation. Spell-checkers, after all, were once independent applications too.”