Microsoft has teamed up with Moreover

Microsoft is making strides is building a powerful rival to compete with Google. In an important step in that direction, Microsoft has teamed up with San Francisco-based Moreover Technologies to develop a continuously updating on the Web, according to the publisher of a newsletter about the search engine business.
"Moreover already has the ability to go out there and spider the Web and pull back news content, and understand how to deal with it," said Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineWatch.com. Even though Microsoft is in the midst of creating its own Web crawler, which could do the same thing, partnering with "somebody like may help more quickly move to having the search service they want."

Source: Ample