Microsoft demonstrates new hard drive search tool
Microsoft demonstrates new hard drive search tool
Microsoft Corp which is challenging market leader Google Inc in the online search market demonstrated for the first time on Thursday 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 Mehdie gave the clearest signal yet that Microsoft would enter the local hard drive search space considered the next battleground among search technology providers...
Search engines rev up in the race against Google
When it comes to Internet searching and the advertising dollars that come with it everyone seems to be playing catchup with Google the No 1 search engine which is preparing for an initial public offering
On Tuesday Yahoo the owner of the secondmostused Internet search engine said it was starting to test a service that helps consumers search for information about local businesses
Ask Jeeves another search engine also said on Tuesday that it had formed a partnership with 47InterActiveCorps Citysearch group of Web sites to get access to information with a local business focus...
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...
Microsoft tests news search service
The goal of both is to give people an easier way to find the latest news online in an easily digestible form
Microsoft said its service aims to be a personal newsstand that will heed user preferences while culling data from more than Englishlanguage news outlets
Googles news site scours Englishlanguage news outlets The Google site which is also still officially in a test form has been around in various iterations since late
The test version of Newsbot was launched as part of com a news Web site that is a partnership with Microsoft and News...
Frothy Offering
July 27
Googles 246 millionshare initial public offering is expected to pull prices from 108 to a whopping 135ashare according to a regulatory filing made public yesterday
Thats high for any stock let alone an
Before Google the highestpriced was Genentech in July which sold shares at 97 according to ipofinancialcom
The plan would raise as much as 33 billion and value the company which will trade using the symbol at as much as 36 billion
The rich pershare price and the minimum purchase of five shares may scare away smaller investors analysts said...