Microsoft, Google Square Off in Search Arena
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As Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O prepares to launch its own Web search engine to take on Google Inc. GOOG.O , industry watchers are already speculating
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A beta version of the search engine Microsoft Corp. is developing went live Thursday, offering users an interface and a set of features that make the product begin to resemble established search engines from competitors Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., Ask Jeeves Inc. and America Online Inc. (AOL).
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Google Inc., on the last leg of its race to sell shares to the public, is facing more rivals, large and small, trying to unseat it as the Web's most popular search destination.
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Microsoft Corp. last week released a preview version of its new Internet search engine. It will be available in its final form early next year.
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Microsoft is aggressively moving into Google&#39;s traditional turf, making its own search engine to challenge the Internet search king.
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Microsoft, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves are all set to jump into the desktop search space, two months after internet search leader Google offered a test version
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Microsoft Corp has officially muscled into the search engine market by launching its Windows Live Search after just seven months in beta.  The company's new search portal boasts several new features, including updated image and local search, related search and an updated user interface.
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On Thursday, Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) MSN division launched a beta version of a search engine that appears designed to compete directly with Web search leader Google.
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Google Inc., the world&#39;s most-used Internet search engine, yesterday introduced software that lets users search for files from their own computers as well as the Web, entering a new area of competition with Microsoft Corp.
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Microsoft Corp. on Monday joined the battle for supremacy in so-called desktop search, introducing software for quickly locating files on personal computers that challenges Google&#39;s two-month-old rival product.
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NEW YORK When Microsoft released its much-awaited MSN Search to compete with category leader Google in early 2005, it did so with the kind of fanfare expected from its marketing machine: a wide-ranging TV, print, outdoor and online campaign, including Super Bowl spots, with an estimated budget of $150 million. Yet afterwards, Microsoft was left in a familiar position: distantly trailing Google, and even losing ground.
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Catching up to Google and Yahoo, Microsoft joins the search-engine business. Also: Hewlett-Packard creates a replacement for semiconductors & hellip;.  Dell makes safer, cleaner PC for the EU & hellip;. and more.
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Microsoft might be king of the software world, but it's having to play catch up in the increasingly important world of Internet and desktop search, chasing the substantial leads of Google, Yahoo and others.
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Microsoft launched its own Internet search engine in a move aimed at challenging market leaders Google and Yahoo.
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Microsoft Corp., the No. 3 Web search provider in the U.S., is rolling out changes to its search engine aimed at narrowing the gap between it and market leader Google Inc.
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Google unveiled a new search tool yesterday that's capable of scanning both the Internet and the files on a personal computer, beating Microsoft out of the gates and significantly raising the stakes in the search-engine wars. -washingtonpost.com
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SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. , the number three US Web-search provider, is rolling out changes to its search engine aimed at narrowing the gap between it and market leader Google Inc.