Microsoft leaks Tulalip internal project, planning to launch social search… thing?

Google’s Social Search can have to make room for an additional guest on the table, now that Microsoft has leaked the homepage for what feels like a brand new social service — of a few sort. Fusible first discovered the page sitting at socl.com, a site that MS recently purchased. Often known as Tulalip (also the name of a bunch of Native American tribes near Redmond), the project promises to assist users “find what you wish to have and share what you understand easier than ever” — which, at this early stage, is pretty difficult to do, on the grounds that the page’s search field is non-functioning. The platform also features sign-in buttons for Facebook and Twitter, the latter of which ends up in an authorization page explaining that Tulalip is an “experimental app,” and that it’ll be capable to “update your profile” and “post tweets for you” (see the screenshot, after the break). It’s too early, obviously, to assert even if the service will launch as an immediate competitor to Social Search, or if it’ll even get off the floor, though Microsoft insists that it didn’t mean to tip its hand so early. The Socl.com welcome page now reads: “Socl.com is an internal design project from one in every of Microsoft’s research teams which was mistakenly published to the net. We didn’t mean to, honest.”