Google rises at Yahoo's expense
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| Google's share is rising at the expense of Yahoo and Microsoft.
| While Google's share rose 6.1 percentage points last year, Yahoo'sf
| ell 0.6 percentage points and Microsoft's dropped 1.1 percentage
| point, ComScore numbers show.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6178164.html
Yesterday:
Google beats Microsoft, Coke in brand stakes
,----[ Quote ]
| Google has knocked Microsoft off the top spot and been named
| the most powerful global brand of 2007 in a recently
| published ranking.
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http://news.com.com/2100-1014_3-6178310.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news
Microsoft Knowledge Base: Can't Find Its Own Articles!
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| It's also why all of Microsoft's blustering about making a better
| search product means NOTHING. Build all the fancy interfaces you want,
| but if your own support search engine fails so astonishingly then
| nobody will take you seriously.
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http://spiritualkungfu.blogspot.com/2007/04/microsoft-kb-cant-find-its-own-articles.html
Last week:
News Analysis: Microsoft General Counsel on DoubleClick and Antitrust
,----[ Quote ]
| This raises a very important question - why didn't Microsoft match Google's
| $3.1 billion offer. Smith would not comment on this, but I can report from
| very good sources that in fact the company did offer to match it, and was
| willing to pay even more to insure that Google did not corner the online ad
| market. But for whatever reasons, the private equity firm that owned the
| majority of DoubleClick's shares decided to go with Google.
|
| [...]
|
| I asked Smith about the irony of Microsoft asking the government to
| support it on antitrust. His response was interesting.
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http://battellemedia.com/archives/003561.php
Related:
Google draws 64 pct of US search queries-Hitwise
,----[ Quote ]
| Hitwise said Yahoo search queries slipped to about 21.3 percent from
| close to 21.5 percent in February and 22.3 percent in March 2006,
| while MSN Search dipped to 9.2 percent from 9.3 percent in February
| and 13.1 percent a year ago.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20070411:MTFH18887_2007-04-11_16-33-02_N11222739&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/3yj54k
Microsoft Continues to Lose Online Popularity
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| This week's Emarketer and Comscore reports drive home Microsoft's
| continuing fall from online
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070326/30668_id.html?.v=1
Google extended U.S. search lead in Feb., report says
,----[ Quote ]
| Google Inc. extended its leading share of the U.S. market for
| Internet searches in February, posting year-over-year growth of
| 40%, according to a report released Tuesday by the research
| firm Nielsen/NetRatings. The company's search business grew much
| faster than that of its rivals Yahoo Inc., which posted 12%
| growth, and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN unit, with 9.1%.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7b93DE01CF-BA45-4ED0-BEDF-CE6FC62D9CA1%7d&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
Former Microsoft Search Chief Bill Bliss On Early Search Missteps
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| Bill's biggest regret? Not bypassing middle management that wasn't
| listening to him scream about the coming threat of Google and going
| right up to Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.
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http://searchengineland.com/070309-094930.php
Microsoft Search Leader To Leave Company
,----[ Quote ]
| The Microsoft Corp. vice president who led the company's push into
| Internet search is leaving the software giant as the effort he
| helped launch loses ground against lead competitor Google Inc.
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http://online.wsj.com/preview_login.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB117329976478329930.html%3Fmod%3Dyahoo_hs%26ru%3Dyahoo
http://tinyurl.com/2jran7
Windows Live to Get First OEM Bundle
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| The initial bundling would be for the Live homepage and Windows Live
| Toolbar, according to sources. Live search also is expected to be
| included in the deal. Other products or services could come in the
| future.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/live_side.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/2jjymp
Microsoft's Futile Attempt at Search Engines
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| An article in Seattle-Post Intelligencer displays a graph showing the
| growth and number of queries of Google and Microsoft, as well as Yahoo.
| The most apparent conclusion that can be drawn from this picture is
| that Microsoft can not start a battle with Google until it defeats
| Yahoo first. Bill Gates? company trails Yahoo by nearly a billion
| queries. Yahoo has also shown growth over the past couple of years,
| while MSN/Live search has stagnated and floundered under 700 million
| queries.
|
| Microsoft?s inability to gain a significant market share, despite a
| growth in the market of over 3 billion queries in the past two years,
| just typifies how the company has shown little inability to shoo
| away the gnat that has become a real nuisance in Google.
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http://blog.fastcompany.com/archives/2007/03/07/microsofts_futile_attempt_at_search_engines.html?partner=rss
Microsoft Windows Live VP to resign
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| Blake Irving, a Corporate Vice President in Microsoft's Windows
| Live Platform group, is resigning his post, according to sources
| close to the company.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=296
Friday roundup: Troubles in Microsoft Live land
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| It hasn't been such a great Friday for the Live teams over at Microsoft.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=281
Software Notebook: Microsoft falls further behind in Web search
,----[ Quote ]
| "If I looked at this, and I were a Microsoft executive, I would
| definitely be concerned that MSN is not showing nearly the kind
| of growth that Google and Yahoo are," said Matt Rosoff, an analyst
| at the independent Directions on Microsoft research firm.
|
| The statistics demonstrate the ongoing struggle that Microsoft
| faces in Web search. The situation is notable in part because of
| the ad revenue that hinges on the number of people using a
| particular search site.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/306054_software05.html?source=rss
Microsoft profit on slide
,----[ Quote ]
| Some analysts are looking for any signs of improvement from
| Microsoft's internet division, which continues to lose market
| share in web search to Google.
|
| Microsoft's online services group saw revenue fall for the last
| four quarters and posted a loss in the past three quarters while
| it shifted to a new internet advertising platform and overhauled
| the company's web properties.
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http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21109542%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
Is Windows Live dying?
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| Over the last year, Microsoft's Windows Live service lineup has
| grown exponentially. At one point months ago, it seemed clear
| that every service Microsoft brought online would fall under the
| Live brand, but lately the trend seems to be moving slowly in
| the opposite direction. What's happening to Windows Live?
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/2/20/7154
Windows Live Shopping no more - MSN Shopping to remain
,----[ Quote ]
| From today Windows Live Shopping beta will be taken offline, with users
| being sent to MSN Shopping, available at shopping.msn.com.
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http://www.liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2007/02/19/windows-live-shopping-no-more-msn-shopping-to-remain.aspx
http://tinyurl.com/287gy6
Sources: Several Windows Live Projects Halted
,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft's Windows Live desktop search project has been
| shelved "indefinitely," although not much reasoning has been
| given as to the reason for its demise.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Sources_Several_Windows_Live_Projects_Halted/1163715423
Office Live: Better Off Dead?
,----[ Quote ]
| Last month I killed Office Live in an act of self defense, after
| repeated access problems and attempts to move my domain to another
| registrar. Judging from the comments to that post, there's an Office
| Live killing spree going on. Not surprisingly, Microsoft wants to put
| an end to the wanton killing.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/office_live_better_off_dead.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/ybsz2o
Connecting the dots on Windows 7
,----[ Quote ]
| I would have asked one more follow up: Was Gates hinting that
| Microsoft will build more of its currently standalone Windows
| Live services right into the operating system?
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=241
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssX4RL24HT4
Where Should Vendors Stick Their Services?
,----[ Quote ]
| Wondering if you noticed the news over at Microsoft Watch this week
| that Microsoft has done what many considered inevitable: Started
| using Windows as a way to hawk Windows Live Services?
|
| It's not too surprising to me that Microsoft is splashing all over
| its Welcome to Vista screen (at least in one of the latest Vista test
| builds, No. 5506) promotional links, inviting users to download Windows
| Live Messenger, Windows Live OneCare, Windows Live Mail Desktop, and more.
| But I was surprised the Redmondians would be so bold as to actually
| embed Windows Live Messenger into Vista. After all the antitrust
| lawsuits Microsoft has been slapped with here, there and everywhere ?
| many of which have focused on its "innovative integration" (a k a,
| bundling) strategies, you'd think they'd be a little more cautious.
|
| With the actual Windows Live Messenger code (not just a download link)
| being integrated right into Vista, I think Microsoft might be really
| going out on a limb. When backed into a corner before about its
| integration strategy, Microsoft's defense was that removing any of
| the integrated components (Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player,
| etc.) would break the OS. But if Vista test builds have been working
| just fine (well, middling, maybe, based on some not-so-happy tester
| comments) without Windows Live Messenger, how can Microsoft make a
| case for it being part of Windows?
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,2005413,00.asp?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
Welcome to college, here's your Windows Live account
http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/4/23/3719
Software rivals say Microsoft's Vista illegal in Europe
,----[ Excerpt ]
| Software manufacturers, citing 2004 European Commission finding,
| contend the operating system violates server laws in Europe.
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http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/26/news/international/bc.vista.microsoft.eu.reut/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote
Microsoft rivals file second European complaint
,----[ Quote ]
| ...Microsoft was preventing access to Vista's programming interfaces
| and hindering the development of compatible products, thus repeating
| anti-competitive violations the commission had identified three
| years ago in a previous operating system.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7bAF5B8FB2-488F-4468-80B8-21F6EEE223E3%7d&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
http://tinyurl.com/2ybdot
Microsoft Loses About 5% Search Share in 2 Years
,----[ Quote ]
| Also, not helping? Their search technology pretty much sucks. While
| it's nice to blame the brand change for the loss in market-share, it
| really comes down to the quality of the search results. Apart from
| their image search, I've never found Microsoft's search technology -
| btw, even I don't know whether to call it MSN, Windows Live,
| Live Search, Windows Search - to be of any great value.
|
| BTW, something else curious from the BW piece...
|
| Steve Berkowitz, who was hired last May to rev up the Web
| business as senior vice-president for Microsoft's Online
| Services Group, declined to comment.
|
| Declined to comment? Business Week runs an article on your search
| efforts, and the guy in charge refuses to talk about it? Maybe they
| need to keep on shuffling the executive deck of cards, until they
| find someone with enough, you know what, to face the music and tell
| us what's going on, and what they're doing to right the ship.
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http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2007/03/23/microsoft-loses-about-5-search-share-in-2-years
http://tinyurl.com/ytwd4l
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