[Am-info] MICROSOFT AIMS AT GOOGLE, STAYS FRIENDLY WITH YAHOO

[Fred A. Miller]

MICROSOFT AIMS AT GOOGLE, STAYS FRIENDLY WITH YAHOO

Posted July 28, 2003 6:41 AM Pacific Time

REDMOND, WASH. - Microsoft is beefing up its MSN search engine
to go head-to-head with Google, but at the same time has no
immediate plans to cancel its agreement for paid search
listings with Overture Services, which was recently bought by
MSN rival Yahoo.

"MSN Search falls into the category of our [key] businesses,"
said Lisa Gurry, group product manager for MSN in an
interview at Microsoft's headquarters here on Friday. "We are
working on building our own search engine from scratch."

=46or the full story:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/28/HNmsaimsatgoogle_1.html

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