Buried at the bottom of the Vista Team Blog entry about Service Pack 1 is a reference to being able to change the default desktop search engine in Windows Vista. There's also a knowledgebase article on the subject.

Granted the ruling has only just been made about Windows Media Player but I wonder if someone at Microsoft realised that the same allegations could be made about the Desktop Search. Google would be the obvious injured party but they're certainly big enough to cause a fuss. Reading around blogs online also suggests that these two giants are starting to tread on each others toes.

What will be interesting is how long it will take the likes of Google to release replacement desktop search engines after SP1 is released. And whether they've been able to get their hands on SP1 to start development