Search champs like AltaVista and Excite had devolved into busy portals that resembled today's biggest content gateways (AOL, Yahoo, MSN).
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He believes the rivalry between Google and Yahoo is overblown and instead thinks the real battle is going to be between Yahoo and MSN.
They use Yahoo and MSN to get stock information and tips, such as whether the U.S. Federal Reserve is likely to raise interest rates.
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The first task the website will perform is to search through your contacts in Yahoo, MSN Hotmail and Gmail etc for people who are already registered with Twitter.
The users can also enjoy Social Hub Premium, offering support for push email and messaging, and seamless calendar and contact synchronization between the phone and users' Google, Yahoo and MSN accounts.
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AltaVista, Excite, Lycos, Go, Snap, Yahoo, and MSN all offer branded versions of IE, tailored both by the portals and the users.
That means millions of AOL users can't chat online with the folks on Yahoo Instant Messenger or MSN Messenger, and vice versa.
In the realm of anti-competitive behavior, the focus of the FTC investigation, Google is little different from AOL.com, Yahoo.com and MSN.com in fundamental strategy.
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These days, the online giants such as Google, Amazon, MSN, Yahoo!
Yet while it was the free Skype-to-Skype calls that attracted the enormous numbers, it was Skype's paid options which allowed it to edge ahead of pre-existing rivals such as MSN and Yahoo.
In carrying out the study, presented at an economics conference held at Stanford University, eBay removed its paid-search keywords from MSN and Yahoo platforms in the US, while retaining them on Google.
And, I'm not sure if they want to impose these fees, but rather, they want to negotiate fees with Yahoo or Google or MSN, or anybody else for that matter, so to get, so these guys could make sure that their video downloads really fast.
She read me the capabilities of the unit, which included unlimited domestic text messaging (didn't know if the unit would have its own phone number) with premium and international SMS available for a fee, unlimited instant messaging, and "unlimited access to 1 premium portal" (AOM, MSN, Yahoo), as well as support for "some" other email providers.
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Google started this binge on maps and "mash-ups"--loading simple maps with extra information--last June, and Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN have recently helped fuel it with features of their own.
Companies such as AOL Time Warner 's (nyse: AOL - news - people ) America Online, Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) MSN Network and even Yahoo!
Jeff Dossett, an 18-year veteran of Microsoft who most recently led audience, content and programming strategy and execution for the MSN Media Network, will join Yahoo!
On its website, Amesys says its "strategic nationwide interception" system can detect email from Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail and see chat conversations on MSN instant messaging and AIM.
"Searches for World Trade Center at places such as MSN Search, Ask Jeeves and Yahoo, for example, brought back no listings relevant to the current catastrophe, " said Danny Sullivan, editor of Search Engine Watch.
Roger McNamee, a principal at investment firm Silver Lake Partners, argues that Overture is well positioned, thanks to its msn business and a new deal with Yahoo Japan.
Google currently handles 66% of searches on the internet in America, compared with 21% for Yahoo and a mere 7% for Microsoft (through MSN and its new search engine, live.com).
The credentials have since been pulled from the web, but it turns out they weren't just for Yahoo accounts, as Gmail, AOL, Hotmail, Comcast, MSN, SBC Global, Verizon, BellSouth and Live.com login info was also pilfered and placed on display.
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Some analysts now say internet advertising revenue will drop about 20% this year - a blow Yahoo can ill afford, having already slipped behind AOL and Microsoft's MSN in the internet-portal race.
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