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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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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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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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. MSFT.O plans to   officially launch on Tuesday its new Windows Live Search   engine, a pillar in its strategy to topple market leader Google   GOOG.O and wrestle away billions of dollars worth of online   advertising.
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Popular British scientific magazine New Scientist has given Microsoftâs new MSN search engine, still in very early beta, good grades.
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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 Corp. plans Tuesday to officially launch its updated and renamed Internet search engine, the latest step in a massive effort to make headway against market leaders Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc.
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Microsoft's browser dominates the Web, but it is facing new competition from Firefox, an open-source project by a new generation of software developers.
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Microsoft claims its new MSN search engine indexes more web pages than any of its rivals.
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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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Microsoft Corp joined the battle for supremacy in so-called desktop search, introducing software for quickly locating files on personal computers that challenges Googleâs two-month-old rival product.
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While senior Microsoft executives pit the company against Google in a looming Internet search war, the Redmond, Washington-based company has begun offering a Google search tool for download from the Microsoft.
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The Google vs. Microsoft technology war does not seem to let up. The latest salvo from the MSN camp is a beta edition of its new MSN Desktop Search application.
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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 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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The launch of Microsoft&#39;s test version throws down a gauntlet to Google. With Yahoo! and Ask Jeeves gearing up, too, a battle is brewing.