Microsoft tests Google News UK rival
News Microsoft Web portal MSN has unveiled a test, or beta, service called MSN Newsbot to search news in the languages of four countries -- the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Spain. MSN Newsbot is an experimental, automated news service that gathers...
[November 18, 2003, 8:50]
Microsoft 'Newsbot' apes Google News
News In conjunction with its own MSNBC news site, the software giant is creating a page dubbed "Newsbot" that will draw news headlines from more than 4,800 other sites, in a manner similar to the Google News service.
[July 27, 2004, 8:15]
Researchers feed newspapers to computers
News However, MSN Newsbot and Google News present the first part of a story, assuming that is the most important part. If the answer is yes, you can bet the folks at MSN want to know. Whether it is summarising news stories or using statistics to find...
[June 10, 2004, 11:10]
