Posts Tagged ‘Live’
Search Must Begin at Home?
Frankly I was pretty surprised with Ina Fried’s article on news.com regarding which search engine is most popular amongst Microsoft employees. If you read the article quickly you might be left with the impression that 80% of internal search traffic was going to Google.
At a company meeting about a year ago, one Microsoft worker recalls hearing that four-fifths of the company’s search traffic was going to Google. Although he uses Live Search personally, the worker, who asked not to be named, said plenty of his co-workers still use Google.
However, if you look at the next paragraph the numbers look quite different, pretty much a 50/50 split in February.
Among its full-time U.S. workers, Microsoft says that, for February, Live Search and Google had roughly equal share, at around 48 percent apiece, with little search traffic going to Yahoo or any of the other search players.
I would argue that four-fifths figure as being dubiously high. I use Live/Kumo Search as my primary search engine. If I don’t receive relevant results, I’ll try Google or Yahoo. I am confident that most of my coworkers do the same, but I can’t verify my “gut” feel.
