When it comes to search, Microsoft is trying everything it can to become a serious player. It tried to acquire Yahoo, its latest version of Internet Explorer attempts to steer Web surfers away from Google, and then there is straight-out payola to search advertisers. I am talking, of course, of Microsoft's Live Search
'Within the mobile SMS search category, ChaCha is the fastest growing service, increasingly competitive with other mobile search providers. We're therefore keeping very close tabs on how ChaCha will affect the mobile market.'
"Microsoft may find a warm reception from advertisers, who currently see a virtual monopoly by Google in the search advertising space. Microsoft is offering shoppers cash rebates to use its new service in a bid to close the gap on market leader Google.
I hope it will help to break the near monopoly we currently have. It has better search results than Live Search. We found that search is no longer just a tool for mapping a keyword to a document. If you're like many people, you're increasingly using search
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