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Survey Confirms: Bing Will Bomb
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| Analysts are positively gushing about Microsoft's Bing. Initial Comscore
| numbers showed a pop in Bing traffic! Some observers have gone so far as to
| suggest that Bing will usher in a whole new era in the search war between
| Google and Microsoft.*
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| Keep dreaming.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-survey-confirms-bing-will-bomb-2009-7
comScore: Bing Barely Gaines Share In June 2009
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| Now a third major ratings service has released search engine share figures
| for June 2009, and like the others, they show that Bing made only a tiny gain
| in the wake of its launch and major ad campaign.
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http://searchengineland.com/comscore-bing-barely-gaines-share-in-june-2009-22448
More debt, no future.
Recent:
Bing: Not Really Gaining on Google
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| All the buzz comes from a new search market analysis by Web stats company
| StatCounter. Bing, the researchers say, secured 8.23 percent of all
| U.S.-based searches for the month of June. (Bing officially launched on June
| 3.) The previous month, StatCounter shows Microsoft sitting at 7.81 percent
| of U.S. searches. That amounts to a month-to-month increase of just under
| half a percentage point following Bing s debut.
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2009/tc2009072_666843.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_top+stories
U.S. Inquiry Is Confirmed Into Google Books Deal
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| The Justice Department confirmed on Thursday that it was conducting an
| antitrust investigation into the settlement of a lawsuit that groups
| representing authors and publishers filed against Google.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/technology/companies/03google.html?_r=1&ref=technology
Seattle data center fire knocks out Bing Travel, other Web sites
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| A fire last night at Seattle's Fisher Plaza data center has knocked out
| service to some top Web sites, including Bing Travel and Authorize.net.
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http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Seattle_data_center_fire_knocks_out_Bing_Travel_other_Web_sites_49876777.html
Bartz, Bing tamp down Yahoo-Microsoft talk
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| Bartz says search engine Bing unlikely to make significant mark
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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/microsoft-revamp-raises-questions-on-yahoo-deal?siteid=yhoof
Bartz: Yahoo Is Fine, Thank You, Without Microsoft
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| Yahoo will do perfectly fine even if it doesn't strike any type of deal with
| Microsoft, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said Wednesday.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/166049/bartz_yahoo_is_fine_thank_you_without_microsoft.html
Related:
Google Gets 70% of U.S. Searches
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| But Google's gain led to lower numbers for other search companies. Yahoo Inc.
| received 19.62% of U.S. searches in June, down from 21.31% last year, while
| MSN Search received 5.46%, down from 9.85% in June 2007.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/148649/google_gets_70_of_us_searches.html
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