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Google gets the boot from Amazon's A9

May 1, 2006 Microsoft's Windows Live Search has replaced Google as the default search engine on Amazon's A9 site. TAGS: Amazon A9, Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc., search engine, blog, Microsoft Corp.

How search engines rate on privacy

August 13, 2007 News.com asks Google, Yahoo and others to fess up on what they do to protect their users' personal information.In their own words: Search engines on privacy TAGS: Ask.com, search engine, privacy, survey, lawyer, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Google unveils Web-based calendar app

April 13, 2006 Free schedule keeper puts fire under rivals with ease of use, collaboration and interoperability with other programs. Video: Google wants to keep your calendar TAGS: calendar, Groove Networks Inc., Google Inc., event, collaboration, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Corp., e-mail, video

Google Local becomes Google Maps

April 21, 2006 Search giant changes name of local search and mapping Web site to avoid confusion TAGS: Google Local, local search, Google Maps, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Google Spreadsheets turns up heat on Excel

June 5, 2006 Web-based program puts search giant in even more competition with rival Microsoft. Images: Google's Excel challenge TAGS: spreadsheet, Microsoft Excel, product manager, Google Inc., CSV, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

Microsoft reveals more about Live Drive

August 24, 2006 An exec provides some details about Microsoft's plans for a free online storage service, Live Drive. TAGS: online storage, Sydney, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Google Inc., hard drive, PC

Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Yahoo

February 1, 2008 Offer--described by Yahoo as "unsolicited"--amounts to $31 per share, or a 62 percent premium above its closing stock price Thursday. TAGS: Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., aQuantive Inc., shareholder, acquisition, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Google combines word processing, spreadsheets

October 11, 2006 Beta of Google Docs & Spreadsheets launches; free product lets people collaborate online in real time. TAGS: Google Docs, spreadsheet, Writely, word-processing, Google Inc., Real-Time, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

Microsoft, Google in healthy competition

May 18, 2009 The rivals extend their tech battle into Web-based personal health records, an area in which they are both upstarts. TAGS: personal health record, health, e-health, health care, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Study: Microsoft loses ground in search

May 21, 2007 Meanwhile, Yahoo and Google both post gains in monthly Nielsen/NetRatings numbers. TAGS: Nielsen/NetRatings, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Google site to aid the blind

July 20, 2006 Search giant tests site designed to serve up Web pages that software can easily read to blind users. TAGS: Google Inc., search result, Microsoft Corp.

Google buys Web word-processing technology

March 9, 2006 Showing it's interest in enabling people to handle office tasks over the Net, Google buys Upstartle, maker of Writely. TAGS: Writely, Google Inc., word-processor, OpenOffice, word-processing, Microsoft Office, blog, Microsoft Corp.

Microsoft's big bid for Yahoo

September 10, 2008 What Yahoo has, Microsoft wants, but Yahoo continues to play hard to get. The two companies still face a formidable foe in Google--and many questions about what they'll do next. Tune in here for th... TAGS: Yahoo! Inc., shareholder, bid, margin, Carl Icahn, Wall Street, antitrust, Google Inc., agreement, font, Microsoft Corp.

Sun moves into Google orbit

October 4, 2005 Alliance aims to boost Sun's Java and Google's Web-based tools, but could also herald a challenge to Microsoft's hold on the PC. TAGS: Sun Microsystems Inc., Google Inc., alliance, Java, exec, CEO, Microsoft Corp.

Google beta offers domains beyond gmail.com

February 13, 2006 Test provides hosted e-mail accounts that feature the user's own domain instead of the search giant's. TAGS: beta, domain, Google Inc., e-mail, Microsoft Corp.

Google buys ad firm DoubleClick for $3.1 billion

April 14, 2007 Deal boosts the search giant's banner advertising business, which lagged rival Yahoo's. TAGS: DoubleClick Inc., Eric Schmidt, banner advertisement, Google Inc., advertiser, Internet search advertising, acquisition, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft adopt same Web index tool

November 16, 2006 Offers a place to submit Web pages to all three search engines at once, instead of performing the process at each site. TAGS: search engine, Microsoft Windows Live Search, Webmaster, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., search result, Microsoft Windows Live, owner, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Wooing interns to Silicon Valley

July 3, 2007 Students working at companies like Google enjoy lots of perks and hands-on training. But a stint at Microsoft gets you a date with Bill Gates. TAGS: intern, computer science, SafeWeb, student, Google Inc., Silicon Valley, talent, professor, founder, food, Microsoft Corp.

Google guns for Microsoft

June 6, 2006 Google Spreadsheets targets Office, but analysts say Microsoft probably shouldn't worry...until the consumers begin to influence the enterprise. TAGS: spreadsheet, Writely, Google Inc., Microsoft Office, enterprise, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Corp.

Dell embraces Google

May 25, 2006 Deal between the search giant and the PC maker gets Google into new territory. It's a strike against Google rival Microsoft. TAGS: Eric Schmidt, pay-per-call advertising, Dell PC, Internet search advertising, PC company, Google Inc., desktop search, agreement, Dell, Yahoo! Inc., eBay Inc., conference, radio, CEO, Microsoft Corp., PC
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