Upside to revenue per search expectations from the Microsoft search integration.
Technology commentator Robert Scoble said that the new feature would present a real challenge to Microsoft search engine Bing, which has been slowly chipping away at Google's lead in the search market.
If you search for something outside Graph Search's purview, it will return search results from Microsoft's Bing search engine.
Next come informational websites and Web search results provided by Microsoft's Bing search engine.
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While Microsoft's search-only hybrid proposal may have been helpful to Microsoft, our board and management concluded it would have had a significant adverse impact on Yahoo!
Facebook has an enormous database of member-created content from which to search, and that puts it in a unique position relative to Google or Microsoft Bing that search on public websites.
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On search, Microsoft and Yahoo extended its promise to guarantee revenue per search through early 2013.
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The terms are complex, but would involve splitting the company, with Microsoft taking the search engine.
Innovations here have already increased Microsoft's search business, leaving Google to scramble to improve its own search engine efforts.
The move appears to be a desperate attempt by Microsoft to grow search and ultimately boost its search advertising revenues.
In China, Microsoft's search engine Bing sounds like "illness" or "pancake" when spoken in local dialects, depending on the tone.
For example, all handsets will be multi-touch and will come with a dedicated hardware button for Microsoft's search engine Bing.
The internet company, which has also announced a 28% fall in profits, is using Microsoft's search technology in a bid to improve advertising revenue.
Based on all the key factors--strengthening our competitiveness, protecting our strategic position, generating attractive financial returns--the Google agreement is far better than Microsoft's search-only hybrid proposal.
As Google steals searchers away from Microsoft's search properties, Yahoo!'
Yahoo and Microsoft announced their search alliance in July 2009.
Working closely with Microsoft to improve search.
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While competitors such as Microsoft and vertical search engines such as Nextag have complained and will continue to complain that Google favors its own services unfairly, others think the FTC case was weak in the first place.
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The Microsoft co-founder Wednesday touted the company's new Live Search Cashback program, which promises consumers money back when they buy certain products found on Microsoft's live.com search site.
Compared with a year ago, Google killed it: Back then it had 74.2% of the paid search market, compared with 7% for Microsoft and 18.8% for Yahoo, the paid search of which has since disappeared into Microsoft.
It looks like Sprint users now have a few more search options at their disposal, with the carrier and Microsoft announcing today that Live Search will now automatically take the users' location into consideration.
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That seems like a good idea and allows Microsoft to leverage its search engine investment.
Microsoft's MSN search is a new piece of software, not a rewritten version of Lookout.
However, it was integrating Microsoft's Bing search engine for situations when graph search itself could not find answers.
Nearly everyone in the world has taken a spin with Microsoft Office, Google Search or an Apple product.
And Microsoft might need to search harder to find additional hardware partners.
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Expect more deals in the coming months like the one Infoseek recently signed with Microsoft making it the search engine on WebTV's services.
According to the terms of the 10-year deal, Yahoo will use Microsoft Bing technology for search, while receiving 88% of search revenues generated through its own sites during the first five years.
"The critical question is whether Facebook can help Microsoft get critical traction in paid search, " says Rob Helm, director of research at Directions on Microsoft.
Microsoft has invested heavily in its Bing search engine but that has not yet made a significant difference as Microsoft tries to compete with Google and Facebook for consumer mindshare.
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