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Windows Live loses search leader

Category: Company News , Digital Publishing , Digital Libraries , Microsoft
The WSJ today announced that Christopher Payne, one of the founders of Windows Live, is leaving Microsoft to start his own company. This comes on the heels of the conflagration caused by Microsoft at the annual AAP meeting, where associate general counsel Tom Rubin gave an address accusing Google of disrespecting copyright law - the implication being, of course, that Windows Live search would be far more careful with its book search than Google Books was being.

Says the Journal:

Historically, Microsoft's MSN service had relied on Yahoo for its search results. Under Mr. Payne's team, MSN set off in 2003 to build its own search engine, eventually switching off Yahoo Inc.


Since that time, Microsoft's online unit has steadily lost market share. In January Microsoft held just 8.9% of the U.S. search market, handling only 2.5% more search queries than a year earlier, according to NetRatings Inc. By comparison Google handled 40.6% more queries over the same period for a 53.7% market share, the research firm said. Microsoft ranks third in market share behind Google and Yahoo.

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Posted by Laura Dawson , March 8, 07, 9:43 AM , comments(0) , permalink , Email this post
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