REDMOND, Wash. -- Microsoft's MSN division lifted the wraps off new search technology that can pluck data from the vast depths of a PC's hard drive in blazing speed, and promises to go where no search engine has gone before.

"We now have the ability to search beyond what's on the Web today, including data you can't find in intranets, as well as on the Internet, such as deep Web databases," said Yusuf Mehdi, vice president of Microsoft's MSN division.

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