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Microsoft on Tuesday will begin testing a new online news aggregation service, as part of its growing search rivalry with Google.
Microsoft has started testing an international news search service in competition with Google's, upping the ante in the hotly contested Web search market.
Microsoft has staff investigating software that will find and summarise all the news items in which an individual is interested.
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