Microsoft enters the Internet search market â at last
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After years of licensing search technology from Yahoo and seeing its Web search market share slowly but steadily decline, Microsoft has finally developed its own search engine and is expected to unveil it later this week.
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Search engines are starting to get up close and personal with many web users.
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Microsoft unveils the beta version of its own search engine, dubbed MSN Search. It does not include some anticipated tools, such as desktop search.
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Microsoft&#39;s latest step into the enormously profitable search sector is unlikely to win any first-stop commitments from users, but the signs are promising.
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We&#39;re all used to searching the web at blazing fast speeds: picking out the right webpages among the five billion choices takes only a few hundredths of a second.
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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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For years, the competition in the search business has focused on finding things on the Web quickly and accurately. And Google has been widely perceived as the winner.
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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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Microsoft Corp. unveiled a preliminary version of its Web search engine late on Wednesday, in its first attack on Google Inc. leading position in the market.
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The battle of the Web search engines is expected to heat up today as tech behemoth Microsoft begins to unveil its much-anticipated product, aimed squarely at toppling market leaders Google and Yahoo!
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Today, the Redmond company is unveiling the first widespread preview of its new MSN Search technology, a key part of its effort to regain ground in a critical area where Microsoft concedes that it has fallen behind.
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Another front in the on-going battle between Microsoft and Google is about to be opened. By the end of 2004 Microsoft aims to launch search software to find any kind of file on a PC hard drive.
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Google&#39;s foray into the desktop search market has this week hit it&#39;s first competition, as rival offerings have been launched by both Microsoft and Ask Jeeves.
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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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In the past decade, searching the Web has grown from an academic experiment to a multibillion-dollar business. Microsoft (MSFT ) has not been a player, being content to outsource its MSN Search service to rival Yahoo!
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Microsoft (MSFT) unveils its much-talked-about revamped Internet search engine on Thursday to compete with Google and Yahoo - but at a test site rather than the main MSN page.
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Microsoft Corp. isn&#39;t often an underdog in anything, so when the software powerhouse released its new search engine, I was anxious to give it a whirl.