The Watson 2.0 contextual search software released by Intellext earlier this month is now available as an add-in package for Microsoft’s MSN Search Toolbar application, Intellext announced Friday.

Microsoft Corp. this week redesigned the home page for MSN Search to give it a similar look other services under its “Live” brand. The move is in anticipation of MSN Search’s imminent name change to ...

The MSN Search service is expected to be ready in final release in 2005 and will eventually replace the search engine technology that Microsoft currently licenses from Yahoo to power the MSN portal’s ...

Not content with its massive television, Internet, and radio advertising blitz to promote its newly released proprietary search engine MSN Search, MSN apparently has released a viral campaign, “MSN ...

Microsoft has been around in the tech world for a long time. Some of their projects, like Windows and Xbox, have been massive hits, while others, like Zune and Windows Phone, never really got their ...

Filling a conspicuous hole in its suite of search engine services, Microsoft Corp.’s MSN division plans on Tuesday to add a local search tab to its search engine that will return location-specific ...

Both MSN and Yahoo have been discussing possible ways to bribe people to use their search engines in order to close the massive gap between Google and their respective second and third place services.

Microsoft Corp.’s MSN search engine, the third most popular in the U.S., suffered an hours-long outage on Thursday as queries returned an error message instead of ...