Microsoft debuts book search tool
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A test version of Microsoft's book search engine is due to go live on 7 December.
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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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Competing with a similar offering from Google but taking an approach one analyst describes as "sound, prudent and correct," Microsoft on Wednesday launched a beta version of Live Search Books.
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Microsoft announced its free Live Search 411 service, a directory assistance line with more features than the average local directory listing.
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Desktop search can help you sort through your computer's contents
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Microsoft has unveiled beta version of a new MSN Toolbar Suite that lets users search all documents, media files and emails on their PCs at the same time as searching the Web.
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The MSN Toolbar Suite Beta rounds out Microsoft&#39;s MSN search family with fully indexed searching of local documents and e-mails.
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Microsoft's books search engine has expanded to include some copyrighted works in its index. Results containig copyrighted material were first made available Thursday evening.
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Microsoft said that it had launched a new desktop search tool that allows personal computer users to find documents or messages on their PCs.
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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 on Monday released its promised desktop search application, focusing on adding local e-mail and file search into MSN&#39;s browser toolbar, Outlook and the Windows operating system.
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Microsoft will offer improved capacity to search copyrighted books on the Internet.
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Microsoft on Thursday officially unveiled the new beta version of its MSN Search site, the company&#39;s hotly anticipated attempt to take on Google for Web searching.
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Microsoft yesterday res-ponded to rivals in the burgeoning search engine business by unveiling a test version of a free desktop search tool that will help computer users find information on the hard drives of their PCs.
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Following the lead of Google and Yahoo!, Microsoft has announced a &#39;beta&#39; version of a desktop search tool, the &#39;Toolbar Suite&#39;.
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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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Tool fights spam and digitizes books by requiring users to identify two words displayed in an image.