Microsoft unveils desktop search rival to Google and Yahoo
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Microsoft has unveiled beta version of a new MSN Toolbar Suite that lets users search all documents, media files and emails on their PCs at the same time as searching the Web.
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Microsoft has launched a beta version of an MSN search engine designed to compete directly with Google. MSN Search lets users search through more than 5 billion documents, Microsoft says.
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DECEMBER 10, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc. and Ask Jeeves Inc. are all set to jump into the desktop search market, two months after Internet search leader Google Inc.
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SEATTLE - Microsoft has become the second tech-industry giant to offer software for searching through computer desktops, a technology it claims is superior to that launched by Google two months ago.
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Microsoft, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves are all set to jump into the desktop search space, two months after internet search leader Google offered a test version
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DECEMBER 13, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Microsoft Corp. has joined the desktop search fray with its release today of the beta-test version of a suite of tools designed to let users find information stored in their PCs.
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Ask JeevesÂ will launch a test version of its desktop search tool on Wednesday, following the launch of similar tools by rivals MicrosoftÂ on Monday and GoogleÂ  in October, and ahead of expected entries from America OnlineÂ (AOL) and Yahoo.
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MICROSOFT has launched a new desktop search tool that allows personal computer users to find documents or messages on their PCs. The new search tool, launched in the wake of a similar effort from Google, appears on the task bar in Microsoft Windows.
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WITH GOOGLE nipping at its heels, Microsoft has just released a beta edition of its new MSN Desktop Search application. Like Google&#39;s very similar product, Desktop Search builds an index of documents and e
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Microsoft on Thursday will launch its long-promised Internet search engine, which will compete directly with market leader Google, sources close to the company said Tuesday.
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INTERNET search giant Google has unveiled a new desktop program that allows users to search the web as well as their own computer files in a move analysts said could be a challenge to Microsoft.
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Ask Jeeves will launch a desktop search tool to compete with similar software recently announced by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. The desktop-search market is heating up as Web-search vendors
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Microsoft Corp joined the battle for supremacy in so-called desktop search, introducing software for quickly locating files on personal computers that challenges Googleâs two-month-old rival product.
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Microsoft announced the release of its MSN Desktop Toolbar Suite beta yesterday, including a new desktop search capability aimed at making it faster and easier for Windows computer users to find the information on their local systems.
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Google&#39;s new Desktop Search software is a muscle car among search engines, racing through personal data stored inside your computer to instantly find things you can&#39;t easily locate.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.  - Google Inc. GOOG.O on  Thursday rolled out a preliminary version of its new desktop  search tool, making the first move against its major  competitors in the race to provide tools for finding  information buried in computer hard drives.
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Microsoft on Monday released its promised desktop search application, focusing on adding local e-mail and file search into MSN&#39;s browser toolbar, Outlook and the Windows operating system.