Bill Gates seems to be out of new ideas, according to eWeeks.com, Microsoft has plans to launch an online marketplace similar to Google Base code-named Fremont.

Fremont is a free service in which people contribute listings, whether it's about a couch for sale or someone looking for a commuting partner.

Microsoft plans to index each item, thereby adding it to the results from using Micro

soft's Internet search engine.

You can get a glimpse of Fremont by going to fremont.live.com. However, Microsoft said, the service itself is for now only open to some Microsoft employees.

Microsoft plans the first public test sometime later this month, according to a Microsoft spokeswoman.

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