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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Continues to Loses Market Share in Search, Down to 6.9%

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Continues to Loses Market Share in Search, Down to 6.9%
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:47:51 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Google U.S. January Search Share Steady At 66%

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| Microsoft (MSFT) had 6.9% share in January, down from 7.04% in December, and 
| 10.35% a year ago. 
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http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2008/02/06/google-us-january-search-share-steady-at-66/?mod=yahoobarrons

They have already lost $billions in search. They even tried spamming
using 'games', to no avail.


Related:

Another Microsoft manager jumps from the Live Search ship

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| Mike Nichols, Group Program Manager for Live Search, has resigned and is 
| moving to work for Yusuf Mehdi, Senior Vice President of Strategic 
| Partnerships.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| What to make of all the recent resignations and reshufflings among the 
| various Microsoft business units? Well, it is reorg season in Redmond. But on 
| the Live Search side of the house, it’s got to be tough to keep banging your 
| head against the wall and making little or no headway in growing your market 
| share….    
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1115


Danny Thorpe quits the Windows Live development team

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| Danny Thorpe, one of the higher-profile hires Microsoft made to its Windows 
| Live team, has decided to leave for greener pastures. 
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=806


Yet another Microsoft search exec calls it quits

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| In March, Blake Irving, the Corporate VP in charge of the Windows
| Live platform, announced his plans to leave Microsoft, effective
| this summer. Payne announced his resignation from Microsoft shortly
| after Irving made his announcement.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=407


at least no chairs were thrown…

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| A friend of mine was walked out of Microsoft today.
| 
| I’m not talking about Stuart Scott, the now former Microsoft CIO who was 
| canned for “violating company policies.” No, another friend decided to leave 
| the MSN Live Search team and join Google Kirkland.   
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http://selberg.org/2007/11/06/at-least-no-chairs-were-thrown/


Another Microsoft Search reorg: Shum now leads engineering

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| That same month, Windows Live Platform VP Blake Irving resigned, as did Chris 
| Payne. the Corporate Vice President in charge of Windows Live Search. 
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=927


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

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| 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


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


Microsoft funding bankrupt Live Search experiment with porn spam

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| Dear reader, please tell me: what do you think of a search engine that steals 
| (bandwidth and AdSense revenue), lies, spams away, and is not clever enough 
| to stop their criminal activities when they’re caught?  
| 
| Recently a Live Search rep whined in an interview because so many robots.txt 
| files out there block their crawler... 
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http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/microsoft-live-search-the-downfall-of-a-tiny-search-engine/


Microsoft’s Club Live fiasco

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| People were using the macro on more than 3 games at a time, on more than 2 
| accounts at a time, why Microsoft didn’t pick up on the fact that in the 
| first few days some people had accumulated enough for 3 Zunes each is beyond 
| us. Some were lucky, others, not so much.   
|
| [...]
| 
| So far no one has been banned from using their accounts, which they needed to 
| sign up, probably because they did not break any laws, or probably because 
| Microsoft didn’t want that hassle and liked their new found traffic.  
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http://www.blogthe.net/2007/07/16/microsofts-club-live-fiasco/


Bots Helped To Boost Microsoft Live Search Gains

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| In a blog post, Compete analyst Steve Willis attributed Microsoft's 
| search gains to prizes awarded to users participating in Live Search 
| Club, which features games that post queries to Microsoft's search 
| engine.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Microsoft is essentially being DDoSed by thousands of people hundreds 
| of times per minute, but they are mistaking this rise in traffic for 
| people actually using Live Search."
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201001092

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