In Search for Search Leadership

July 2, 2009 by lfllmg · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Business, Technology 

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Microsoft launched Bing in June as a re-branded, fresher looking version of Live Search. This is one more of the so far fruitless efforts to make money in the fast growing search industry. Last year, right before the economic meltdown, a bid to acquire Yahoo for $40B failed (Balmer, Microsoft’s CEO is probably thankful for that now.) Bing launched as expected with a huge marketing campaign (maybe actually clever) that goes after Google, so far #1 seated and far, far from the other 2. Is the investment worth it and how long will it take to pay back?

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