Microsoft Challenges Google

prostoalex writes "Microsoft's MSN division previewed a tool for desktop document search extending into the Web search, Reuters reports from Redmond, WA. The message to Google was clearly articulated in Steve Ballmer's speech: 'There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete. We're going to compete very, very hard.' Google News points to 63 more articles on the topics, MSN Newsbot provides tons of links as well. ComScore estimates Google's market share at 42.2%, Yahoo's at 38.8% and MSN's at 31.8% (numbers do not add up to 100%, since Internet users rely on multiple engines)."

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Re:Yahoo matches Google?

[gotr00t]

Don't forget that Yahoo offers more than search, while google is really still just a search engine, with the possible exception of Gmail, which has not been made avaliable to the general public.

Then again, "market share" is a very vague term, and I take it to mean the overall market share of these webportals.

and in other google news...

[SuperBanana]

And in other google news you're not likely to see here on slash, the CFO of google is being investigated by the SEC. Seems his old employer, SkillSoft/SmartForce, had to restate...uh...3 and a half years of financial figures...something that earned them the loosing side of a $30M class action lawsuit.

The suit said SmartForce officers and directors, including Drummond, ''acted knowingly or in such a reckless manner as to constitute a fraud and deceit" upon shareholders. Drummond, as chief financial officer, had been responsible for SmartForce's financial reports.

Meet the new boss- same as the old boss.

Market Share - Hogwash

[stevenmusumeche]

I control many sites with hundreds of thousands of visitors a day. Here are the stats for search engine referers:

google.com (54.8%)
yahoo.com (10.3%)
msn.com (4.2%)
aol.com (2.3%)
ask.com (1.8%)

disclaimer: MSN and Yahoo are inflated because of Overture PPC traffic.

Re:Yahoo matches Google?

[prostoalex]

Yahoo has far more reaching international appeal. While Google runs international Web front-ends in chosen language, portals like Yahoo! Singapore are separate business operations with their own marketing, sales and so on. Pretty big brand name in Asia, from what I've heard.

Am I the only one who thinks google sucks?

[Anonymous Coward]

I use google quite actively. Google toolbar in Firefox, etc etc. But you have to admit, the google system, while it might be "the best" engine out there, does pretty much suck.

There are entirely too many stores being used in the search engine for results. You want to look up information for a DVD player model # and you'll get hundreds, if not thousands of links to stores before anything else.

And God knows how many sites are just spam houses instead of actual sites with content. I can't even name how many times I've searched for something, clicked the link to see something like "The Bottled Water Taco Bell is great with Viagra Dell Computers. It adds 100 to your Microsoft Xbox Vivid Video while your Sony Cable Descrambler downloads FREE SOFTWARE! cock shit pussy cunt fuck lesbian girl girl shit black interracial anal"

Google needs some competition, because they've been stagnating for way too long.

Re:Objetivity

[proj_2501]

top 5 results for 'linux' search
on google:
1.) linux.org
2.) linux.com
3.) redhat.com
4.) debian.org
5.) kernel.org
on msn:
1.) linux.org
2.) linux.com
3.) redhat.com
4.) kernel.org
5.) debian.org

msn even links to google's specialized linux search later on.

Hmm, this looks

[sabNetwork]

familiar.

No one can blame Apple for being a little prophetic.

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correction

[SuperBanana]

CFO of google

Oops, had that wrong. Drummond is "vice president for corporate development, secretary, and general counsel" for Google.