Vista, IE7 help Microsoft boost search market share
Posted by Emil Protalinski on 19 April 2007 - 13:33 · 8 comments & 4167 views
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#1 Posted by Express on 19 Apr 2007 - 14:06
- Ever since I installed Vista, I kept the default as Live.com.
It works just as well as others for me.
I have the other search engines in my list but the default is Live.com
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#2 Posted by fergiej on 19 Apr 2007 - 15:18
- First thing I did was change the default search to Google...
AH, well. So much for statistics... 
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#3 Posted by toadeater on 19 Apr 2007 - 19:17
- Quote -Growth from Live.com is outpacing Microsoft's overall search traffic growth. Live is the integration point for Vista
MS once again leveraging their OS monopoly to gain an unfair advantage over competitors. Time for another antitrust trial. -
#3.1 Posted by duhk on 19 Apr 2007 - 19:31
- That comment isn't fair. Everyone has a choice, they don't force you to use it. I believe the lazier PC users would prefer the OS came with the essential things they need than to have to look for it or be without it. It is their OS, and it is their Search so it seems fair. If google had an OS they would do the same.
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#3.2 Posted by BigBoy on 19 Apr 2007 - 20:56
- Quote - (toadeater said @ #1)Quote -Growth from Live.com is outpacing Microsoft's overall search traffic growth. Live is the integration point for Vista
MS once again leveraging their OS monopoly to gain an unfair advantage over competitors. Time for another antitrust trial.
So what you are saying is this:
It is OK for Dell and other OEMs to make a decision for the end user and change the search default to Google, but
It is not OK for Microsoft to make Live.com a search default in IE 7 in Vista.
Riight... that makes sense... not. -
#3.3 Posted by MDboyz on 19 Apr 2007 - 21:29
- Quote - (toadeater said @ #3)Quote -Growth from Live.com is outpacing Microsoft's overall search traffic growth. Live is the integration point for Vista
MS once again leveraging their OS monopoly to gain an unfair advantage over competitors. Time for another antitrust trial.
What is the default search for firefox, opera, or other browsers ...etc ...?
IE7 is developed by Microsoft, they have their right to set the default search engine to theirs. If a user doesn't know how to change the default search engine, he/she shouldn't be messing around with the setting anyway.
Fair or unfair you should know .......
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#4 Posted by guruparan on 19 Apr 2007 - 20:19
- Live is better..Live Image search rocks. And nothing wrong in making live.com as default search with OS..bcos Microsoft is the OS developer, so if they wont, then who shud?
More importantly, comScore senior vice president James Lamberti believes that increasing adoption of Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7 are helping Microsoft's search efforts since the web metrics firm is seeing increased traffic to Live.com. "Growth from Live.com is outpacing Microsoft's overall search traffic growth. Live is the integration point for Vista, and it looks like Live.com is beginning to have an impact," said Lamberti. Assuming Microsoft's March increase is not a blip but the start of a trend, which is something we won't know for a few more months, it is very probable that as Vista adoption grows so does Live.com's (and therefore Microsoft's search traffic), meaning Microsoft's strategy of making Live.com the default search engine in IE7 is working.
Speaking of Microsoft's competition, comScore reported yet another month of gains for Google. Its market share saw a modest, 0.2% point increase during March, bringing it to 48.3%. comScore's news for Yahoo was not as good, as it was the only one of the top five search engines to see a decrease in market share last month: now at 27.5% from 28.1%, its lowest level in over a year.