Microsoft's Bing division is losing a billion dollars a quarter

[A Black Falcon]

http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/20/technolo...hpt=hp_bn5

Also, it's taken almost nothing from Google's marketshare since it was introduced. Instead, most of its marketshare gain has been from Yahoo and minor, lesser search engines -- and given that Yahoo now uses Bing as its search provider, getting marketshare from Yahoo doesn't get Microsoft too much.

So yeah, wow, those are some big losses... I wonder how long MS will keep going on with them. At the moment anyway MS seems committed to Bing, regardless of losses.

[Great Rumbler]

Microsoft likes losing money apparently [see: Xbox].

[A Black Falcon]

It does seem so, yes.

[EdenMaster]

Sorry, but when a search engine has gone beyond popularity and reached the point where it's entered the lexicon ("let's Google it"), it's foolish for anyone to try and dethrone that.

[Dark Jaguar]

I once did a search for bing. Found it too.