Posted AT 3:59 PM EDT on 21/05/08
Microsoft lures search traffic with cash rebates
REDMOND, Wash. — — Microsoft Corp. is offering cash rebates when people make purchases after using its search engine as the software maker begins to reveal how it plans to take on Google Inc. following the failure of its $47.5-billion (U.S.) bid for Yahoo.
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