New Microsoft search engine opens war for Internet dominance
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WASHINGTON (US): Microsoft&#39;s new search engine launched Thursday opens a new front for the world&#39;s biggest software company in a new war -- for control of the Internet, analysts said.
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SEATTLE/SAN FRANCISCO  - 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 over which rival will be left standing in the  high-stakes competition.
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Microsoft and Google look set to clash over their rival ways of searching desktop computers.
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Microsoft Corp. plans to launch its new Windows Live Search engine, a pillar in its strategy to topple market leader Google and wrestle away billions of dollars worth of online advertising.
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Microsoft launches Web search technology Thursday that it hopes will give it a share of the market dominated by Google. The new search engine will initially be available only on a special test site.
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Ask.com, one of the Internet's main search engines, is unveiling a new Web site today that is designed to win a larger share of the high-volume search market at a time when many users are developing loyalties to competitors Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
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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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REDMOND, Wash. - 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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Microsoft Corp.  unveiled the full-release version of its search engine on Monday, turning up the heat on Web search leader Google Inc.
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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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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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As first assault on Google&#39;s leading position in the market, Microsoft&#39;s newly launched search engine encountered some technical problems on its first day.
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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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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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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 unveils its much-hyped search engine. Does the world change?
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The US software giant Microsoft said it would launch its Internet search service on Thursday amid the fierce competition with rival Google.