Overture has launched its operations in Australia offering paid-placement search services, headed up by an ex-Alta Vista heavyweight.
Despite Wall Street's negative reaction to Microsoft's plan to invest billions in its emerging businesses, CEO Steve Ballmer told employees that "now is not the time to scale back."
Analyst report speculates that Google may want to pre-empt Microsoft takeover and protect the revenue Google gets from its biggest partner.
In a step to keep pace with chief rival Google, Yahoo plans to start testing a downloadable desktop search application in early January.
Microsoft's failure to invest more in Internet search technology was the company's biggest mistake in years, a chagrined Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said on Thursday.
In moving beyond Web search to the desktop, the company faces a slew of challenges: controversy over privacy, technical hurdles and the rivalry of Microsoft among them.
Microsoft's venture into online news and digital music proves how volatile and inconsistent the IT industry is. What if the software giant decides to make PCs and servers next? How will this affect IT spending?
The software giant updates its corporate Web search technology with in-house software, its latest effort to catch up with innovations in the navigation tools market.
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