Microsoft says it will bid for Internet search group
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US software giant Microsoft said on Tuesday it would offer to buy the Norwegian Internet search company Fast Search and Transfer for 1.2 billion dollars (836 million euros).
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Software giant, Microsoft Corp., has decided to release beta versions of its updated MSN search engine earlier today. The company hopes to compete against leading search engines such as Google and Yahoo by
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Microsoft Corp has offered to buy  Norwegian Internet-search software firm Fast Search & Transfer  for 19 crowns per share, valuing the company at about $1.2  billion, the companies said on Tuesday.
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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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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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Microsoft is joining search firms Google, Yahoo! and British advertising agency WPP in the battle to sell internet advertising.
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Microsoft Corp. plans to roll out a preview version of its new Internet search service on Thursday, according to a media report. Free!
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Microsoft Corp  plans to invest  heavily in Web search to compete against Google Inc ,  even if it fails to acquire Yahoo Inc , the company's  chairman Bill Gates said on Monday.
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Microsoft will offer improved capacity to search copyrighted books on the Internet.
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Microsoft Corp made a  bid to buy Yahoo Inc for $44.6 billion in cash and stock,  seeking to join forces against Google Inc in what would be the  biggest Internet deal since the Time Warner-AOL merger.
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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.  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. 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 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 made a $1.2 billion bid on Norwegian enterprise search vendor, Fast Search and Transfer, or FAST, a company that could boost its Office product suite and compete with Google.
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Internet services are expected to team up against Microsoft in a Tuesday announcement.
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Microsoft Corp. agreed to buy search engine company Fast Search & Transfer ASA for $1.2 billion Tuesday, adding software products that help companies trawl for information on the Internet.