Search engine war hots ups

By This Is Money
Updated: 00:00 BST, 20 February 2004

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AN INTERNET search engine war is under way after Yahoo! 捨てるd 競争相手 Google from its in-house system.

Yahoo! made the 告示 yesterday after long showing 調印するs it 手配中の，お尋ね者 to cash in on the lucrative market.

Although a search engine itself, Yahoo! uses Google to look for （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） on the web.

Last year, it spent more than £1bn trying to find an 代案／選択肢 system for its own search engine. It 投資するd a その上の £127m buying internet service provider Inktomi, which developed a search system 類似の to Google.

Yahoo! said it believed it could 配達する a better 質 web-searching service than 競争相手s.

Google will be 段階d out on Yahoo! 場所／位置s within weeks. To steal Yahoo!'s 雷鳴, Google chose yesterday to 発表する its own 場所／位置 had just got bigger.

It now 含むs 6bn items - 4bn of which are web pages.

Google co-創立者 Sergey Brin said: 'We are putting even more energy into our 改良s and have turned up the notch on 革新 a bit.'

A third 競争相手 is also joining the fight to be the No.1 search engine on the 逮捕する.

Computer 巨大（な） Microsoft 計画（する）s to 開始する，打ち上げる its own 科学（工学）技術 すぐに.

The 差し迫った three-way 戦う／戦い 最高潮の場面s the value of searching on the 逮捕する.

Google is by far the world's most popular search engine, used by seven in 10 web 使用者s.

始める，決める up in 1998 by Larry Page and Mr Brin, it 最初 had a web 索引 of 25m pages.