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July 12, 2004
Did Microsoft Steal AltaVista Code?
A week after the alleged 'stealing' of the Orkut code by Google the news is that a Microsoft employee has been arrested for having stolen proprietary technology from the AltaVista search engine two years ago.
According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter:
The allegations in the indictment against Chavet "do not pertain to Microsoft," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Sonderby, chief of the U.S. Attorney's Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property unit in Northern California, which is prosecuting the case. The FBI did not seize computers from Microsoft as part of the case, said Greg Fowler, the supervising special agent for the agency's Northwest Cyber Crime Task Force.
As you know Microsoft is experimenting at the moment with their own search engine which is planned to replace the current Yahoo! Inktomi technology that is used by MSN. Will this incident have any impact on the search technology developments? I seriously doubt it. I am more than sure that Microsoft will come out as a strong player in this race. It certainly has the means of getting large chunks of the pie even from day 1. We will see if they play their cards right.
Harry Tzetzos @ Rugles Website Marketing
Posted by Basileios at July 12, 2004 08:03 AM
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