Bada Bing, Bada Boom

[agerhart]

http://worldofsu.com/philipsu/?p=209

[grnidone]

I'm not surprised about the political climate at Bing.  I never envisioned Microsoft as a good place to work.

I am a bit surprised aboot the fact that people are so hooked to Google's logo and prefer the Bing results as long as they show Google's logo beside.

[inbound]

"aboot"

Canadian?

[rcjordan]

Bing is losing nearly a $1 billion a quarter, with no sign of letting up. (YEOW!!)

Microsoft has lost $5.5 billion on Bing since the search service launched in June 2009, but the company's search losses actually pre-date that. In fact, the software giant has never made money in its online services division. Since Microsoft began breaking out that unit's finances in 2007, the company has lost a total of $9 billion.


http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/20/technology/microsoft_bing/?source=cnn_bin

[BoL]

I wonder what share they'd need of the market to break even, though apparently they spend vast amounts on marketing.

Even a world with 80% google, 20% otherwise would be better than of late, worldwide that is.