Microsoft takes on Google with rival search engine

MICROSOFT will go head-to-head with the likes of Google from today after the computer software giant launched a rival internet search tool.

Google, the world’s most popular search engine, has built up a huge global following thanks to its easy-to-use service.

Bill Gates’s Microsoft is now hoping to clinch a large slice of the lucrative market with the arrival of its new MSN Search facility, www.msn.com.