Microsoft search set to take on Google: Because there is no corner of the Web that Microsoft doesn’t want to own. You can try it out here. This is what the MSNBot has been trolling for over the last year.
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer told shareholders at the company’s annual meeting Microsoft would beat Google’s technology and double its advertising revenue in the next five years.
“We will catch up, we will surpass,” Ballmer said.
The company had no official comment on its plans for the new MSN Search service, which has been operating on a trial basis at search.msn.com since the summer.
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