Microsoft seems to be working on a search engine for social networks. The service bears the name Tulalip. The home page of the service was briefly online. According to Microsoft, as an internal research project; further details are unknown.
Tulalip was discovered by website Fusible, and appears to be a service that allows users of social networks can be searched. The welcome page contained a search box, some links, and two buttons to be on Facebook or Twitter to log in. Only that second link proved to work, and then in a pop-up by Twitter permission was requested from the data with Tulalip to share. With this permission can Tulalip tweets read, post, Twitter update profile, followers to see and new to follow accounts to add.
When asked by the website Search Engine Land, Microsoft has reported that socl.com the domain Tulalip on find was part of an internal research project of Microsoft. The Tulalip site is now offline again and would only accidentally are online. On the site, which is now to read: “Thank you for your visit. Socl.com is an internal design project from a team within Microsoft Research that accidentally is published online. That was really not intended.” It is unclear if and when Microsoft Tulalip for the public at large wants to open up.
