Amazon.com has dropped Google as its search provider in favor of Microsoft, an important victory for the Seattle software maker as its battle with the 400-pound gorilla of search heats up, according to a report Tuesday.

Searches on Amazon.com are now powered by Windows Live Search, Microsoft's new search engine that's still in the testing phase, the Washington Post said Tuesday.

"Our engineers have done some testing and evaluation, and overall we concluded this was an interesting option to discover information," Amazon executive David Tennenhouse told the newspaper.
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