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Search Engine Watch April 2, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Searching & Navigating Via Internet Explorer Everyone knows that the Internet Explorer browser lets you surf the web. But did you realize that Microsoft's popular browser also has some search capabilities built into it? This article explores how IE lets you search and navigate on the web... |
InternetNews June 8, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
Microsoft Launches Tabbed Browsing Tool Microsoft has included tabbed browsing in an update to its MSN Search Toolbar for version 6 of Internet Explorer. |
Search Engine Watch November 5, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Takes On MSN No one doubts that Yahoo is one of the web's most popular portals. However, unlike its major rivals MSN and AOL, Yahoo has no "browser advantage" to drive traffic to its web site, a weakness that the new Yahoo Essentials program for Internet Explorer aims to correct... |
Search Engine Watch October 1, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
RealNames Clones Causing Confusion RealNames is dead, and contrary to rumors, companies seeking to take its place in the namespace world have no ties with Microsoft. |
Search Engine Watch October 4, 1999 |
Improved MSN Search Launches Microsoft officially launched its new version of MSN Search in late September, and the improvements leapfrog the service forward into being a compelling choice for those searching the web. |
Search Engine Watch November 3, 2000 Danny Sullivan |
MSN Search Releases New Version MSN Search went live with a new version of its site about a week ago. There have been a variety of minor tweaks and design changes, as well as some substantial changes... |
PC World November 10, 2000 Tom Spring, PCWorld.com |
Don't Delete That Browser: Microsoft, @Home Scuffle New clients from AOL and MSN claim and aim to simplify the Net, but may complicate your surfing life with incompatibilities... |
Search Engine Watch February 1, 2005 Danny Sullivan |
MSN Search Officially Switches To Its Own Technology Nearly two years after announcing it would develop its own search technology, MSN Search began feeding the general public results found through its own internally developed search engine. |
InternetNews August 5, 2010 |
Microsoft Nears IE9 Beta With Final Preview Microsoft has begun shipping the last technology preview of the next version of Internet Explorer, IE9, before it issues the beta release of the new browser. |
Search Engine Watch December 13, 2004 Chris Sherman |
MSN Joins the Desktop Search Fray Microsoft has launched its long anticipated desktop search application, and it's packed with promising features and tools that make it a strong contender coming out the gate. System requirements for MSN Desktop are listed here. |
Search Engine Watch May 16, 2005 Chris Sherman |
MSN Toolbar with Desktop Search Officially Launches After five months in beta, Microsoft has released the final version of its desktop search application, incorporating many new features based on extensive user feedback. |
PC World April 2005 Scott Dunn |
Find Your Local Files the Web Way in Windows The new (and free) MSN Toolbar Suite beta offers fast file searches, and more... The Copernic Desktop Search provides many of the same features. |
Search Engine Watch July 15, 2004 Chris Sherman |
Google Toolbar Adds Keyword Browsing to Internet Explorer Google has added a keyword based browsing feature to its toolbar, allowing users to type words rather than URLs into the Internet Explorer address bar and automatically see the 'most relevant' site for those terms. |
The Motley Fool March 14, 2005 Alyce Lomax |
MSN Unplugs Mac Microsoft has announced that its MSN Internet service provider service will no longer be available for Apple's Macintosh platform. Should investors care? |
Search Engine Watch July 1, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
MSN Search Gets New Look; Microsoft Gets New Search Engine Microsoft released a public preview of its long-awaited web search technology today. The company also gave a facelift to its popular MSN Search site that remains powered by Yahoo's search technology and dropped paid inclusion listings there. |
Search Engine Watch October 7, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
MSN To Drop LookSmart LookSmart has announced that its deal to provide Microsoft with listings for its MSN Search service is not being renewed, leaving the company without its most important partner. |
The Motley Fool July 1, 2004 Alyce Lomax |
Microsoft's Still Searching Today, Microsoft unveiled an upgrade to its MSN search capabilities, as well as a preview of search functions to come. |
InternetNews September 1, 2005 Tim Gray |
Microsoft Attempts Phishing Slowdown Microsoft releases new add-ins to its MSN Search Toolbar including an anti-phishing tool to detect websites set up to scam users out of their personal information. |
Search Engine Watch September 3, 1999 |
New MSN Search, AOL Search Available in Beta Two major portals are readying new versions of their search services. Both MSN and AOL have made unveiled their next-generation search offerings at beta sites that have just gone live. |
InternetNews June 25, 2010 |
Internet Explorer 9 Ups Standards Support Microsoft's browser adds more HTML5-friendly features. |
Search Engine Watch August 2, 1999 |
Direct Hit Debuts at MSN Search, Lycos Both MSN Search and Lycos are now featuring Direct Hit results, and the company itself has just received $26 million in financing from a variety of venture firms. |
Search Engine Watch November 11, 2004 Chris Sherman |
Microsoft Unveils its New Search Engine - At Last After months of speculation and two 'preview' releases, Microsoft has taken the wraps off of its new MSN search engine, the first major competitor to join the big leagues of web search in nearly a year. |
BusinessWeek November 29, 2004 Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Microsoft Is No Threat To Google -- Yet The software giant's unparalleled ability to integrate its search tools into Windows, Internet Explorer, Outlook, and other Microsoft Office components could give it a huge competitive advantage. But first it must greatly improve the quality of its new search service. |
PC World April 2006 Erik Larkin |
Internet Explorer 7 Adds New Security First publicly available beta also includes tabbed browsing and other features. |
PC World October 14, 2002 Tom Spring |
Crazy 8s: Hands on MSN and AOL Battle of the (version) 8s shows MSN gaining ground, but AOL knows its membership. |
InternetNews August 25, 2005 Tim Gray |
Another Tool For Phishing Fights Microsoft will release an anti-phishing filter for use with IE 6 within the next few weeks. |
Search Engine Watch March 25, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
New Look In July, New Search Engine Later, Says MSN MSN announced a redesign for its MSN Search service last week, a cosmetic change that better delineates paid placement listings. But the July release will not coincide with the launch of new underlying technology. |
InternetNews March 17, 2010 |
Microsoft Previews IE 9 Microsoft makes ambitious pitch to developer community with platform preview of Internet Explorer 9, a browser it promises will enable a 'whole new class of applications.' |
Search Engine Watch July 1, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Microsoft's MSN Search To Build Crawler-Based Search Engine In April, news emerged that Microsoft intended to make a huge new investment in web search. Now signs of that investment are appearing. |
InternetNews December 13, 2004 Jim Wagner |
Microsoft Enters Desktop Search Fray Microsoft officials announced the release of its own desktop search application Monday, hoping to make up Google ground established two months ago. |
InternetNews April 13, 2011 |
Microsoft Cranks IE to 10 with Platform Preview Microsoft is accelerating its browser development efforts. |
Search Engine Watch February 19, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Jupiter Media Metrix Releases New Search Specific Traffic Figures For the first time, comprehensive estimates of search activity by Internet users is being made publicly available, and it sheds new light on which search engines are really the most popular... |
Search Engine Watch March 16, 2005 Danny Sullivan |
MSN To Launch Its Own Paid Listings Program MSN has announced it will enter the paid search arena with a full-blown self-service paid listing program similar to those run by Yahoo and Google. |
PC Magazine December 28, 2004 Neil J. Rubenking |
Windows Explorer Loses Menu, Toolbar How to restore a missing main menu and toolbar from Window Explorer on Windows 2000 Professional. |
InternetNews May 6, 2010 |
Early Peek at IE9 Focuses on Compatibility Along with making HTML5 a key concentration for the new edition of Internet Explorer, Microsoft is also gunning for higher Acid 3 scoring. |
PC World January 2002 Tom Spring |
Microsoft Updates the Look of MSN Web site has new content and features... |
The Motley Fool May 17, 2005 Alyce Lomax |
Microsoft's Microsearch The giant takes its desktop search product out of beta. At this point, it goes without saying that Microsoft's just providing another feature that any Internet company involved in search has to provide these days. |
PC Magazine December 1, 2009 Neil J. Rubenking |
Strip Branding From Your IE Title Bar Some ISPs add annoying branding to the title lines of their Internet Explorer browsers, such as "Provided by Comcast." |
InternetNews July 16, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner |
Microsoft Adds Lookout to Its Search Lookout's tools help users search Outlook. |
InternetNews September 9, 2010 |
Microsoft Pushing IE8 Update in Bing Ads Microsoft takes to advertising on its own search engine to encourage users to upgrade to the latest version of its popular Web browser, Internet Explorer 8. |
Search Engine Watch June 3, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
RealNames To Close After Losing Microsoft RealNames, which provided a pioneering alternative to the domain name system, announced last month that it would cease operations as of June 28 after failing to renew an important distribution partnership with Microsoft |
Search Engine Watch June 4, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
New MSN Search Emerges In Beta MSN Search has released a new beta version of its service that offers a number of handy features, including upgraded spell-checking, improved query refinement and integration of information from Microsoft's Encarta Enquire reference service... |
PC Magazine August 29, 2007 Anton Galang |
Vista Tip: Going Up Vista Windows Explorer gets rid of the back button. |
InternetNews September 3, 2010 |
Microsoft IE Browser Slips in Share After Gains Microsoft has been hyping the recent gains in market share Internet Explorer has enjoyed in recapturing some of its eroding market share, but the latest figures suggest that it could be slipping again. |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2004 Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update Ask Jeeves added indexed PDF files to its results... For Internet Explorer users, Ask added a "binoculars preview"... Gigablast has been busy expanding its database size... Google is now indexing the text content of Flash files... etc. |
InternetNews September 17, 2010 |
IE9 Won't Support Windows XP The newest version of the Internet Explorer browser from Microsoft won't run on Windows XP, still the company's most widely-used operating system. |
PC Magazine September 13, 2006 |
Side-by-Side Instances of Windows Explorer Tiling Windows explorer for easier viewing. |
InternetNews May 3, 2006 Andy Patrizio |
Microsoft Preps Faster Web Searches Microsoft Research has developed a faster way to search the Web and easier ways to share Web links with your friends. |
PC Magazine October 28, 2003 Neil J. Rubenking |
Search Internet Explorer Favorites Internet Explorer does not provide a way for users to search the Favorites folder, something that becomes essential when you have a large number of favorite sites. Here's a work-around. |
PC Magazine July 17, 2008 Gary Berline |
Viewing Pictures in XP How to activate Filmstrip mode in when looking at pictures in Windows XP. |