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VIRTUALISATION Microsoft to launch last ditch search effort
VIRTUALISATION Microsoft to launch last ditch search effort | Microsoft to launch last ditch search effort |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Tuesday, 26 May 2009 | |
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There were also rumours that Kumo had semantic search capabilities that could for example enable users to search on related images and so on. Now there are rumours that the new search engine has been given the unlikely name of Bing (then again who would have thought of naming a search engine Google). Whatever turns out to be true, one thing is clear. Microsoft has a monumental task ahead of it if it hopes to put even a small dent in Google's armour in the search space. Google has somewhere between 60-65% share of the global search space, while Yahoo has a shrinking 20% and Microsoft has a shrinking even faster less than 10%. While Google's dominance in search is still not as great as Microsoft's in the desktop operating system space, its star is on the rise while Microsoft's is at best moving side ways. CONTINUED Page 2 |
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