Watching Google rake in advertising revenue “was a wake-up call within Microsoft,” the company’s top technical executive, Ray Ozzie, said.
But he said Microsoft plans to do more than simply mimic Google by rolling out web-based versions of desktop programs or following its particular search and advertising model. Read the rest of this entry »
MSN South-East Asia has appointed Media Two Point Zero (Media 2.0) Sdn Bhd as its exclusive sales partner in Malaysia. Read the rest of this entry »
The search battle in the U.K. is for second place, with Google far ahead of the field, according to Hitwise (via PC Advisor), which says Yahoo’s share of U.K. searches has increased and is tied with that of MSN, with Yahoo Search and MSN Search each accounting for over 7 percent of U.K. Internet searches in the four weeks ended May 20. Google continues to dominate the U.K. search market, powering 77 percent of U.K. searches for the same period……………..More At……
The search wars have heated up recently with the news that Amazon.com is switching their searching from Google to Microsoft’s new “live” search. Read the rest of this entry »
In April 2006 Yahoo!, Microsoft.com, MSN and Google received over 90 mln unique visitors. Yahoo! was the only one to break the 100 mln unique visitors barrier, according to Nielsen//NetRatings data. Read the rest of this entry »
MICROSOFT will introduce a search engine better than Google in six months in the US and Britain followed by Europe, its European president said. Read the rest of this entry »
Close on the heels of “Google Base”, Microsoft is set to foray into online classifieds with “Fremont” - a service which will focus on classified announcements of products and services for sale, by individuals or commercial”Fremont” has reportedly been available in test form to Microsoft employees since last week, and is expected to launch in a couple of weeks from now. Read the rest of this entry »
According to the New York Times, Microsoft is currently in the top position in negotiations with Time over an ownership stake in Time`s Internet unit America Online. Read the rest of this entry »
Time Warner and Microsoft are discussing the possibility of combining some aspects of America Online and MSN to become a larger force in Internet search and search-based advertising. Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft today directly challenged Google in the burgeoning internet telephony market by buying Teleo, a firm that allows users to make calls from their computers to normal telephones. Read the rest of this entry »
ng developers to help combat Google’s search dominance, Microsoft has quietly released documentation to extend its desktop search tool beyond the browser. Read the rest of this entry »
Infospace Search & Directory said yesterday that it plans to add results from Microsoft’s MSN Search, reports DM News. Infospace has direct distribution agreements with Google, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves. It will feature MSN Search results on its branded search properties, including Dogpile, WebCrawler and MetaCrawler.
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Microsoft has declared war on the world’s best-loved search engine but it may find its dominance of the software industry works against it. Read the rest of this entry »
After months of testing and years of planning, Microsoft has finally launched its Web search service and stopped using Yahoo on its main portal pages. Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft’s MSN is slowly According to turning up the dial on its Web search beta, sending more and more visitors home-baked results over results from partner Yahoo. Read the rest of this entry »
New Yahoo! Mail Enhancements, Including SearchGreetings from Yahoo! Mail. Today we are rolling out several new enhancements across the globe and thought I’d take a minute to tell you specifically about three of them: improved search, full implementation of DomainKeys and Address AutoComplete. More
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Google has opened an office just down the road from rival Microsoft’s headquarters in Seattle’s suburbs as it seeks to lure local engineering talent, the No. 1 search engine company has said. Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft search falls far short
NEW YORK — Microsoft Corp. isn’t often an underdog in anything, so when the software powerhouse released its new search engine, I was anxious to give it a whirl. First the good news: MSN Search has a few features that go beyond Google — laudable given Google’s formidable head start. Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft Corp. is quickening its march into search by setting up an advisory group of industry insiders to preview its search-engine plans and research.
Microsoft’s Internet division has invited dozens of Webloggers, researchers and others to its Redmond, Wash., campus next week for an event called “Search Champs.” They are scheduled to hear about and test upcoming features for MSN Search and to meet researchers from Microsoft Research, according to several people invited to participate.