Google has launched a beta for hosted e-mail accounts that feature the user's domain instead of gmail.com.
Yahoo is offering a new search service designed to help people find more-relevant content online.
Yahoo has become the latest major Internet company to introduce consumer software for searching e-mail and other desktop files.
In a step to keep pace with chief rival Google, Yahoo plans to start testing a downloadable desktop search application in early January.
Google has quietly added a feature to its free e-mail service that lets people import their address book contacts from rivals Yahoo, Microsoft and America Online.
In moving beyond Web search to the desktop, the company faces a slew of challenges: controversy over privacy, technical hurdles and the rivalry of Microsoft among them.
Windows chief Kevin Johnson has two huge tasks: Chase Google with Windows Live and get the operating system back on track.
Google has emerged as the poster child for a new wave of applications assembled from the piece-parts of several Web sites. No Windows necessary but Microsoft has its own ideas, of course.
See the new interface and several of the highly-touted new IE7 features.
Microsoft's new batch of services borrows heavily from current or proposed products. Is Windows Live just another name for MSN?
Microsoft hustles to catch up with search engine giants Google and Yahoo, but the beta version of MSN Search still leaves plenty of room for improvement.
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