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Images: Microsoft revs its search engine

February 1, 2005 Software giant replaces Yahoo search technology with its own MSN Search and gives the MSN home page a makeover. TAGS: MSN Search, MSN, search engine, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.

MSN announces satellite-mapping service

May 23, 2005 Scheduled to launch this summer, MSN Virtual Earth will allow users to zoom in on a neighborhood and its businesses. TAGS: MSN Virtual Earth, local search, MSN, Bill Gates, satellite, Amazon.com Inc., Yahoo! Inc., photograph, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

MSN tests new blog, search features

January 12, 2005 The service will let users find blogs and syndicate content using the RSS format, as well as search blogs for specific content. TAGS: RSS, MSN, blog, search technology, RSS feed, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Yahoo 360 takes spin through blogosphere

March 16, 2005 Web giant invites members to sign up for beta test of blogging and social networking service. TAGS: Yahoo! 360, blogging, Yahoo! Inc., Web company, social networking, blogosphere, blog, MSN, networking, Google Inc., photograph, Microsoft Corp.

Yahoo buys photo-sharing site Flickr

March 21, 2005 Move comes less than a week after the Internet giant launched a beta test of a new blogging tool. TAGS: Flickr, blogging, photo-sharing, Sunnyvale, Yahoo! Inc., Internet company, social networking, MSN, photograph, blog

MSN's Web search picks up steam

January 15, 2005 Net portal is increasingly testing its own legs in Web search race, sending visitors home-baked results over Yahoo's. TAGS: pay-per-click advertising, MSN Search, MSN, Internet search, Overture Services Inc., Yahoo! Inc., search result, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

MSN blogs sift through popular culture

August 8, 2005 Microsoft quietly launches MSN Filter, which features blogs that cover five categories of entertainment. TAGS: MSN, blogging, blog, category, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Yahoo Desktop Search goes prime time

September 28, 2005 Program, which allows users to easily search many kinds of files at once, will compete with products from Google and MSN. TAGS: desktop search, Yahoo! Inc., MSN, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Yahoo, Microsoft join IM hands

October 12, 2005 Companies to allow interoperability of their instant-messaging clients in a move against America Online and Google. TAGS: Yahoo! Inc., MSN, America Online Inc., interoperability, ComScore, IM, AOL Instant Messenger, agreement, Google Inc., Time Warner Inc., U.S., Microsoft Corp.

MSN vs. Google and Yahoo, Round 3

March 16, 2005 Microsoft's surge into search started with algorithmic and desktop efforts. Now comes the paid-search platform. TAGS: Overture Services Inc., MSN, Yahoo! Inc., ComScore, Google Inc., search, platform, search engine, Microsoft Corp., U.S.

Desktop search race heats up

December 13, 2004 With beta service, Microsoft's MSN aims to move up from the back of the crowd. Also: Will IBM be the Google of the business world? TAGS: desktop search, IBM Corp., Google Inc., MSN, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Verizon adds Windows Live services

August 29, 2006 New contract expands partnership to include Microsoft's Windows Live products for Verizon's DSL, Fios customers. TAGS: Microsoft Windows Live, Verizon Communications, MSN 8, portal, Verizon DSL, MSN, agreement, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., DSL, broadband, Microsoft Windows

Yahoo launches customized IE 7 beta

June 12, 2006 The release of a Yahoo-customized version of Internet Explorer 7 takes direct aim at Google and Firefox. TAGS: Yahoo Launch, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Yahoo! Inc., antitrust, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox, MSN, Microsoft Corp., Web browser, Google Inc.

Yahoo, Microsoft bolster e-mail services

May 26, 2005 With early version of PhotoMail, Yahoo targets demand for sharing snapshots. MSN Postmaster, meanwhile, takes aim at spam headed to Hotmail. TAGS: photo-sharing, Yahoo! Inc., spam, MSN Hotmail, MSN, e-mail, photograph, Microsoft Corp.

Windows Live rooted in MSN's past

November 3, 2005 Microsoft's new Web service, which debuted this week, owes much to MSN and a failed effort called "Hailstorm." Photos: Windows Live and kicking TAGS: Microsoft Windows Live, MSN Spaces, MSN, Microsoft Windows Live Spaces, MSN Hotmail, Microsoft Windows Live Mail, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows, IM, Google Inc., operating system

Microsoft kicks off search effort

February 1, 2005 Firm replaces Yahoo's search technology with its own and launches widespread ad campaign, in hopes of dethroning Google. Images: Microsoft revs its search engine TAGS: MSN, Encarta.com, Overture Services Inc., search technology, MSN Search, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., search engine, Microsoft Corp., TV, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Phishers target Yahoo Messenger

March 24, 2005 Phony messages direct people to a site that asks people for their Yahoo usernames and passwords. TAGS: e-mail filtering, SurfControl plc, Websense Inc., personal information, Yahoo IM, phishing, Yahoo! Inc., MSN Messenger, attacker, IM, victim, hacker, P2P, Australia, MSN, attack

Google ups ante in mapping rivalry

July 25, 2005 Company unveils hybrid mapping site on heels of MSN's Virtual Earth, in heated battle for localized search. MSN, Google label Earth TAGS: local search, Google Inc., satellite, MSN, location, Yahoo! Inc., U.S., Microsoft Corp., photograph

Experts: Microsoft-Yahoo alliance is food for IM worms

October 12, 2005 Connecting Microsoft and Yahoo's IM services creates an environment where a worm could spread farther than ever before, experts say. TAGS: IMLogic, Akonix Systems, Yahoo IM, Yahoo! Inc., alliance, IM, MSN, expert, worm, MSN Messenger, food, America Online Inc., Microsoft Corp., security

Google--what you get for $400 a share

November 28, 2005 The company's engineers are dabbling in dozens of projects beyond the mainstay search service, from digitized books to local maps. Here's a guide. TAGS: Google Book Search, Google Base, Google Inc., Google AdSense, MSN, Yahoo! Inc., Amazon.com Inc., America Online Inc., U.S.
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