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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 [...]

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.

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.

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.

ng developers to help combat Google’s search dominance, Microsoft has quietly released documentation to extend its desktop search tool beyond the browser.

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.

Microsoft to Launch Paid Search Technology

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 [...]

Hoping to drive users to its new MSN Search service, Microsoft (Quote, Chart) announced it will release a new beta of its messenger client with an embedded search bar.

Author’s experience with MSN bot and google research says MSN bot is bombarding open source sites. For More Detail Click

Can you believe that Microsoft Caught Spamming Google. If not there is a thread at Webproworld says It appears that someone at Microsoft has created some of what I call the “old classic doorway pages” in an attempt to spam Google. When you perform a search at Google for search terms such as “Broadcast [...]

Microsoft has announced that they will release Longhorn, their new operating system, without WinFS. This means that Microsoft’s new OS will arrive without a desktop search utility.