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Microsoft asked Keynote Systems not to make a survey of search engine users available to the public.
Editor's Note: Can MSN meet Steve Ballmer's call for
search supremacy? Will MSN's relevance impact your decision
to advertise with them? Tell us about it at WebProWorld.
The numbers didn't look good for the home team in Redmond, the
Wall Street Journal reported, and that may have led Microsoft
to request the suppression of a search engine study. In the
study, MSN Search fell to 5th from 3rd among 2,000 users surveyed
in the second quarter of 2005.
 Relevance
drove the drop, as 27 percent of users found their general search
results lacking. 37 percent working with specific geographical
locations, ie local search, didn't find the relevance they wanted,
WSJ cites the Keynote survey as reporting.
Microsoft says they asked Keynote not to disclose the study,
which would have mentioned MSN Search's drop in a press release.
A MSN information services group director, Lisa Gurry, claims
Microsoft had problems with Keynote's methodology. The results
they found didn't match Microsoft's research.
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MSN claims that a better assessment of its search performance can be found in its search queries share in the US. WSJ notes comScore's numbers have MSN's percentage at 15.5 percent for July. In comparison, Google had 36.5 percent for the month, and Yahoo had 30.5 percent.
Yahoo figures in the MSN equation, because until February MSN used Yahoo's search to handle its queries. Since the switch to in-house search technology, users have fled for more relevant search engine sites, according to the report.
One of those destinations has been Google, which continues to vex Microsoft with its rollout of products and the much-rumored massive network it is constructing. An internal paper on the Google threat, constructed by MSN execs and seen by the Journal, said "Google threatens Microsoft's position on the Internet, and could potentially lock Microsoft out of its existing distribution channels and reduce the value of Windows."
That document likely led to the recent reorganization of Microsoft's corporate structure, paring seven divisions to three. This morning, Microsoft declared a dividend of 8 cents per share and announced a change to its corporate governance guidelines. Any director on Microsoft's board who has a majority of votes withheld in an uncontested election must resign.
Those directors may be taking another look at the "Google -- The Winner Takes All (And Not Just Search...)" paper, where executives noted the lack of innovative products created by MSN. It could be that an executive or two will be resigning before a director does, if MSN continues to slide, and putting the clamps on negative surveys won't stop that slide from happening.
Discuss this at WebProWorld.
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Need A Shopping Buddy?
By Jason Lee Miller
Online shoppers often visit up to 20 sites per day over a
three-week period looking for the best deal, or so says SquareTrade CEO
and co-founder Steve Abernethy, which is why his company debuted a free
virtual personal shopper at this year's DEMOfall, an annual new-tech
preview.
The SquareTrade Sidebar is an always-on application that
"detects when you are shopping" and automatically begins snooping
around the web for related information to help users make an informed
decision more efficiently. The sidebar personal shopping assistant
collects price comparisons, availability, product reviews, and seller
trust ratings.
SquareTrade says the new tool is also the first of its kind
to incorporate anti-fraud and anti-phishing technology as well as
specialized databases shared by consortiums that include eBay,
Microsoft, and Visa.
"Research says most online consumers shop inefficiently --
often visiting up to 10 sites per day over 10-20 days to assure
themselves of a good deal," said Abernathy. "That's a lot of wasted
time hunting for the best price."
SquareTrade's sidebar is available in beta release at the company's website.
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Which Search Do You Recommend?
Welcome back, fellow WebProWorld followers. Today, we are spotlighting
more of a philosophical discussion than the normal "how to"
posts. Apparently, poster Deliguy
has a hard time answering the "What search engine should
I use?" question when people ask him. He used to be a Google-ite,
but appears to have become a little disillusioned by the Mountain
View search kings. What do you answer when people ask about
search engine preference? Is it still Google, or have you moved
on to another? Drop by and share your thoughts.
Have a safe weekend.
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Will
There Ever Be A Happy Medium
As a local computer tech I get asked quite often about which search engine I use. I used to always say google as I have been an avid user of google since it's inception. For some reason I no longer have a good answer for that. However in the recent years I couldn't help but notice that my efforts in seo has changed my mind about which search engines I use and when.
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