Microsoft's Live Rome Edition. The Empire Stikes Back?
Harrison Hoffman, reporting at CNET, is impressed with the news feature that Microsoft is now bringing to the LIVE search environment as part of the changes to LIVE that are codenamed "ROME" and are to be released this spring. LIVE has struggled for some time to take market share from Google and/or Yahoo, and so far LIVE has failed to deliver.
Thus despite the cleverness of the Microsoft LIVE team I'm skeptical that they can do much to pull readers away from Google's excellent Google news service unless they manage to bring news directly into the explorer browser. Microsoft has a sorry history of losing to Google in virtually every head to head search item, so it is hard to bet that LIVE news will fare much better given that it does not even appear to include as many news sources as Google News.
Thus despite the cleverness of the Microsoft LIVE team I'm skeptical that they can do much to pull readers away from Google's excellent Google news service unless they manage to bring news directly into the explorer browser. Microsoft has a sorry history of losing to Google in virtually every head to head search item, so it is hard to bet that LIVE news will fare much better given that it does not even appear to include as many news sources as Google News.
posted by Joseph Hunkins at 2:04 PM
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