Microsoft makes FAST move to expand its enterprise search capabilities
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Microsoft said its planned $1.2 billion acquisition of Fast Search & Transfer, or FAST, will give it a full-fledged enterprise search product line that can scale to billions of documents.
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TechWeb - Acquisition will let search vendor expand offerings of low-cost alternatives to Microsoft.
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Seeking to narrow the gap with Google,  Microsoft Corp unveiled a retooled Web search service that aims  to deliver more relevant results and combines text, video and  other information onto a single page.
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The online search battle was extended earlier this week, when Microsoft launched its new desktop search tool - allowing users to find their favorite music, email, acrobat files and other documents in a friendly and effective manner.
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Microsoft claims its new MSN search engine indexes more web pages than any of its rivals.
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Microsoft Corp., stepping up its efforts to compete with rival Google Inc., will offer consumers a preview of its technology for searching the Internet, beginning Thursday.
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TechWeb - The rise of Google, Yahoo and specialized search providers has radically altered our perception of information access, yet enterprise search implementations haven't kept up with the transformation in the consumer world. Plenty of vendors are developing breakthroughs, but the missing player has been Microsoft, and many believe progress in enterprise search is being held hostage by long and unwieldy upgrade cycles for systems including Windows, Office and SharePoint. Look beyond quick fixes and bring search into your strategic information management strategy.
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Microsoft Corp. on Monday became the second tech-industry giant to offer software for searching through computer desktops - a technology it claims is vastly superior to that launched by Google two months ago.
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The battle for search-technology supremacy extended to new front today when Microsoft launched a tool for finding files stored on personal computers.
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Redmond-based Microsoft Corp. on Thursday launched a test version of its new MSN Search service, hoping to compete with Google and other major Web search services.
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Microsoft Corp. released its long-awaited desktop search technology yesterday, entering a crowded race to dominate information access on Windows-based PCs.
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Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday  it would offer improved capacity to search copyrighted books on  the Internet as the company battles Google Inc. for advertising  dollars from Web-based services.
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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's two-month-old rival product.
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Microsoft released its latest search engine, Windows Live Search, which is said to enhance sifting through search results by utilizing categories such as digital images, news, Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds, and blogs.
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Trying to catch up with Google, Microsoft says it will change the way computer users search.
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Sprint customers are getting expanded search capabilities on their mobile phones via new services from Microsoft.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft has offered to buy enterprise search software company Fast Search And Transfer for 6.6 billion Norwegian kroner ($1.2 billion), it said Tuesday.