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Microsoft: Back To The "Early
Days Of Search" Songbook
Microsoft's Ballmer boasts of search engine progress
from the Associated Press gives us an update from Microsoft CEO Steve
Ballmer, out of this week's
MSN Strategic Account Summit, on how things are going on the search
front. Short answer: big advances, but lots of work to be done.
Notably, there was no timeline on
surpassing Google in six months, something we've heard before. Instead,
Microsoft is back to the original songbook of "it's still the early days of
search," what they used to say back in 2003, when they declared entry into
the
search wars. From Ballmer:
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Online ad spending to reach $1 bln in China by 2007 Posted
by ZDNet Research @ 12:30 am
Online ad spending in China has
been growing by more than 75% annually for the past 3 years. It's expected
to reach $812 mln 2005 and top $1 bln in 2007,
according to IResearch report in Business Week. Chinese newspaper ad
sales on the mainland fell 5.1% in 2004, while at magazines they dropped
16.5%
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Microsoft goes after search ads
revenues hard - By Byron Acohido, USA TODAY
Posted PM ET
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Google projects
revenues over $10 billion for 2006. Stock
Google's stock price closed above $400.

The Caris analyst maintained "buy"
rating on Google. He continues to project 2006 revenue of just over $10
billion for the company and believes that this could grow to as much as $100
billion in five years.
"Should the revenue streams from
these new businesses achieve the success we think possible, it is quite
possible that estimates will prove too low," Stahlman said.
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MySeeks surpasses Google in useful features and capacities
Posted
PM ET
Myseeks Search Engine provides the option to find more than
web pages. Using on the top of the search box on the Myseeks home
page, you can easily seek out images from across the web, discussions that
are taking place on Usenet newsgroups, locate news information or perform
product searching.
Myseeks is also known for the wide
range of features it offers, such as it excellent spell checking, easy
access to dictionary definitions, integration of stock quotes, street maps,
telephone numbers and much more. The new Myseeks
Toolbar is certain to win a popular
following for the easy access it provides to Myseeks customers and its
features directly from the Internet Explorer browser.
The MySeeks Search Engine may seem
similar in some ways to Google's search engine, however it is clearly a far
more superior search engine tool in many ways.
For a list of major partnerships,
see the Search Providers Chart.
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