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Quillen: The search war escalates
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| But there's Google, which dominates search on
| the Internet by the novel expedient of being
| very good at the job. Google makes money
| ($1.65 billion profit in the last quarter),
| mostly by selling ads.
|
| Microsoft has tried to get into search. In
| 1998 it offered MSN Search. Then came Windows
| Live Search in 2006, followed by talk of
| acquiring Yahoo (Google's closest competitor),
| and this June, Microsoft launched Bing â whose
| ads tout its peculiar virtue of delivering
| less information than Google provides.
|
| Bing has gained some market share (3.26
| percent globally, compared to Google's 85
| percent and Yahoo's 6.2), but it's obvious
| that Internet search is one market where
| Microsoft has failed in its drive for world
| domination.
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http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_13921495
Hitwise: Google Built US Internet-Search Share Further In Nov
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| Google Inc.'s (GOOG) share of U.S. Internet
| searches rose 1.4% in November from a month
| earlier to 71.6%, according to data provider
| Hitwise, as Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) and Microsoft
| Corp. (MSFT) reported declines.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091209-711515.html
Recent:
Bing search site suffers outage
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| Microsoft has apologised for a brief outage
| which saw its search site Bing disappear from
| the internet.
|
| The outage lasted for nearly 30 minutes
| between in the early hours of 3 December. At
| that time anyone visiting the site got an
| error message.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8394676.stm
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