Microsoft Live Search Goes Live
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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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Microsoft Corp. finally debuted its own Web search technology on Thursday, hoping to challenge Google Inc.'s long dominance of the field with results tailored to a user's location and answers from its Encarta encyclopedia.
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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 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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Microsoft Corp., world largest software maker, introduced its desktop search feature on Monday, taking aim at Google with its beta desktop search functionality.
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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 introduced on Wednesday  a suite of Windows Live online services bundled into a single  download in its latest effort to compete with Google Inc&#39;s  growing array of applications delivered over the Web.
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Blog: Today, Microsoft released a new version of their Windows Live Mobile Search application.
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After at least a year of talk and sneak peeks, Microsoft starts its run at Google. By Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News. Microsoft will push its homegrown search software into beta tests Thursday, its first real move
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We are born to be a Live... Microsoft is beta testing two new features of Windows Live - its effort at delivering software as a service over the web.â¦
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Microsoft unveils the finished version of its home-grown search engine.
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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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Links to this week's topics from search engine forums across the web: New MSN Search Goes LIVE in Beta - Microsoft To Launch New Search Engine - Google Launches 'Google Advertising Professionals' - Organic vs Paid Traffic ROI? - Making Money With AdWords? - Link Building 101
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Windows Live Search Replacing MSN Search By Thursday, MSN Search will be no more. Windows Live Search will replace it around the globe. Microsoft is also taking the &#8220;beta&#8221; label off Live, Live Search and Live Local tonight. Chris Sherman&#8217;s column in SearchDay tomorrow is about Live Search. I&#8217;ll be writing a couple of posts about Live [...]
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Microsoft added Office Live Workspace, a&#160;program for uploading and sharing documents online, to a suite of services specifically geared for users at academic institutions on Monday.The company announced the integration of the service into its Microsoft Live@edu Suite at a symposium for higher-education customers on its Redmond, Washington, campus. Live@edu is a suite of Web-based services aimed at giving universities the basics for creating an online community. Microsoft launched the suite in March 2005 and said more than 400 schools are currently using it.In addition to Office Live Workspace integration, Microsoft also has increased e-mail storage of Live@edu from 2GB to 5GB, and added up to 1GB of password-protected online storage space. The company also has updated the suite with an IP address whitelisting service to ensure e-mails sent from university mail services don&#39;t get caught in a recipient&#39;s spam filter.On Oct. 1, Microsoft unveiled a beta-registration program for Office Live Workspace, a Web-based extension of Microsoft Office that lets people access, share, and collaborate on documents online. Microsoft is facing new competition in the market for office applications from rivals like Google that are offering free Web-based alternatives to Office, and so it is diversifying its own offerings in the space with more online services.People interested in the Office Live Workspace beta can sign up online. The service will be available for free later this year.
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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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The company offers a suite of online services including e-mail and Web search under its Windows Live brand.