MSN Search is a Thorn In Microsoft’s Side
TheStreet.com reports that Microsoft’s share fell as much as 13% on Friday. this downturn was directly blamed on to Microsoft’s search engine, MSN Search.
Microsoft was not prepared for “the rising cost of competing with the better-positioned Net players, notably Google,” TheStreet.com reports. Bloomberg reports that Microsoft may be “investing too much at the expense of profit” in MSN Internet properties, $2.4 billion more, to be exact.
TheStreet.com says that MSN Search’s search revenues were down in the first quarter and that they expect MSN Search to “lose advertising share” in the 2006 calendar year. All this spells out bad news for Microsoft investors.
May 3rd, 2006 at 3:35 am
Microsoft shouldn’t be too worried about his, as Google has that market and Microsoft has a completely different market. They can’t really compete head-on, no one benefits. Just find their own niches, and everything will be a-okay.