Microsoft aims to search and destroy
Once again activity is stirring on the sprawling campus of Microsoft Corp Once again the software company is playing catchup in a technology field where its famously driven management team was slow to spot an opportunity and threat
And once again technologists are betting the ultimate winner in the coming donnybrook over computer search wont be todays market leader Google or its Bay Area rival Yahoo Inc which now powers Microsofts consumer search site It will be the Puget Sound software goliath which is known as a ferocious competitor...
Daum acquires Lycos for $95 mil.
Ending weeks of speculation Daum Communications Corp said yesterday it has acquired Lycos Inc offering billion won 95 million to buy the remaining assets from Spains Terra Networks
Analysts predicted the move by Koreas largest Internet portal would have a limited impact on its intentions to expand overseas pointing out the companys lack of products to penetrate the market and Lycos demise in popularity among search engines
The deal marked the second ownership change for Lycos Terra acquired the search site in for 125 billion amid the height of the Internet boom...
Microsoft offers sneak peek at new search engine
Microsoft which is challenging market leader Google in the online search market has demonstrated for the first time a search engine that looks for information on computer hard drives as well as information on the Web
The worlds largest software maker had hinted before that it was interested in offering search technology for information beyond the Web but Microsoft vice president Yusuf Mehdi gave the clearest signal yet that Microsoft would enter the local hard drive search space considered the next battleground among search technology providers...
Microsoft Demos Hard-Drive Searching
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Microsoft
showed off its new
search engine
which seeks information on hard drives as well as on the Internet in a meeting with analysts and press at its Redmond Washington headquarters on Thursday...
NewsFactor Network - - Microsoft Demos Hard-Drive Searching
The software giant announced last month that it planned to revamp its search technology in a bid to challenge market leader
Google
in the onlinesearch market
In his Thursday presentation vice president Yusuf Mehdie made it clear that Microsoft will be entering the local harddrive search arena which analysts see as the next big battleground among searchengine providers The Web today is roughly 20 percent to 30 percent of all crawlable material Mehdie said If you can crawl it you can find it...