米Microsoft、ネット検索サービスを11日開始

米Wall Street Journal紙によると、米Microsoftは同社が開発していたネット検索サービスを11日より開始する。

Microsoft Corp. tomorrow will start its long-awaited Internet search service, adding fresh competition to Google Inc. After 18 months of development, the Redmond, Wash., software maker will open a preview version of the search service, according to people familiar with the plan. The company is trying to grab a bigger piece of the lucrative business, now led by Google, of combining Internet search and advertising. (ROBERT A. GUTH, KEVIN J. DELANEY and DON CLARK, Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, "Microsoft to Launch Challenge to Google, Yahoo", The Wall Street Journal, November 10, 2004; Page A3)