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Web News: Microsoft staffer charged with stealing search code

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10-July-04, 12:05 AM

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Web News: Microsoft staffer charged with stealing search code

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	Laurent Chavet, a former AltaVista employee, was charged with accessing the company's computers in 2002 after he was no longer employed by the Web search provider but before he was hired by Microsoft, according to an FBI affidavit in an indictment issued by the U.S. District Court of Northern California. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AltaVista was bought by online search advertising provider Overture Services, which in turn was bought by Web portal Yahoo last year. Microsoft is beefing up its search technology to take on Google, the Web's No. 1 search provider, and has a team at its MSN division working on algorithmic search technology.

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