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Microsoft Introduces Competition For Google News

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the up-to-the-minute-or-something dept.

Romeo E. Cabrera writes "In advance of an imminent launch of its own search engine, Microsoft has launched its own version of the popular Google News service. Based initially on feeds from the Moreover news aggregation service, the new beta service (known as MSN Newsbot) aims to provide news on a range of subjects including World, Sports, Entertainment, Science and Technology."

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  1. Re:Paranoid? Maybe not.. by Zeinfeld · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    At the risk of being troll or falimbait; Microsoft is pissing me off. Every day I come to /. and I see some new story about how Microsoft is ripping ideas off of everyone else.

    Yes I agree, people should use Linux because it is the only operating syste that is entirely novel in every aspect of its design.

    The vile accusations that Linux is somehow a 'copy' of the UNIX operating system or that it in some way borrows from the design of 'Minix' by Tannenbaum are completely unfounded.

    Linux was in fact developed minus a decade before these earlier systems.

    Linux has been highly innovative introducing the world to log based file systems minus a decade after their introduction in VMS.

    Google's concept of a Web search engine is also highly innovative, appearing minus seven years after WebCrawler.

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