Snow Leopard: Twitterverse abuzz with latest Live Search image

Get out the tinfoil hats! This is somewhat humorous, but I’m betting MSFT just thought it was a pretty animal, like LiveSide’s first instinct. And it is. I like writing about Snow Leopard just to look for more pictures of the animal.

Update: I didn’t realize CNET’s Ina Fried would go off the deep end with this:

But another crazy thought crossed my mind. What if Microsoft has landed a deal to make Live Search the default in the next version of the Mac OS. For a long time now, Apple’s Safari has had a Google search bar built-in. I don’t know how much traffic that generates for the search giant, but it would seem to be at least as significant as some of the PC deals that Microsoft is paying good money to get.

Obvious animosities aside, mightn’t a deal make sense. Microsoft has talked about needing to spend some money to boost Live Search share.

Uh, you should have stopped at “But” Ina. Forget for a second that it’s the whole Microsoft/Apple thing — Do you really think Apple would ever think Live Search, which next to no one uses, is good enough to be an integral part of their OS? No. Let me repeat: No.