Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:19:38 +0530
From: sheshagiri kulkarni
DearAll,
Microsoft has created a news search service for its MSN portal
called Newsbot (http://uk.newsbot.msn.com/), as its own alternative for
Google news.
Microsoft service is a test or beta version that culls over 4000
online
news resources.Cover news in four languages English, Spanish, Italian and
French languages and national news from different countries
(United Kingdom, France, Spain,Ital).
To fuel the news site, Microsoft has taken help from the
San Francisco basedMoreoverTechnologies.
Tit for tat:
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Google has offered a freely downloadable piece of software that
allows users to do a Google search without having to open a browser
(like
Internet Explorer ).It enables to search with Google
from
any application without lifting fingers from the
keyboard.
With this, now user can keep a mini search engine "googling" in a
corner, while typing or editing a document.
It can be downloadedfrom
http://toolbar.google.com/deskbar/.
Regards
Sheshagiri
Sheshagiri R Kulkarni
Information & Knowlege Management
Trainee
National Center for Science Information
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore
Ph 3942511
sheshagiri@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
