Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 28th Jan 2007 16:48 UTC, submitted by jayson.knight
Bungled branding of the new Windows Live Internet services has hurt Microsoft and could affect its chance to play catch-up with Google, analysts said on Friday. On Thursday, Microsoft lowered its sales forecast for its Internet services business for the full year from 11 percent to between 3 percent and 8 percent. It also acknowledged that its search market share has dropped. Windows Live Search saw its searches drop nearly 10 percent from a year ago, while Google's rose more than 22 percent, according to figures released this week from Nielsen/NetRatings. Google has 50.8 percent market share, followed by Yahoo at 23.6 percent and Microsoft with only 8.4 percent.
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2006-03-12
...will have to set the default search engine as Microsoft's in Internet Explorer.
or Buy out another search engine provider with all its Billions.
Edited 2007-01-28 18:23