Microsoft, which is trying to drive growth by investing in everything from small business software to video games, has quietly set its sights on a new industry -- searching the Web.
Chairman Bill Gates, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer and a handful of other executives sat down in February to answer a question asked countless times before in the worlds largest software makers 28-year history. Should Microsoft build or buy?
What they decided was to build technology that would eventually surpass Google Inc.s ability to sift through the Web and return results relevant enough to make it the top Internet search destination.
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